GREENWICH—Fifth graders at the Waldorf School of Saratoga Springs toured the Battenkill Fibers Carding and Spinning Mill in Greenwich this week. Students observed the inner workings of the mill and ...

Winter 2026/2027 collection features eco-friendly recycled yarn innovation. 26th February 2025. Knitting Industry \| Benna ...

Children would use special brushes to comb out or “card” wads of cotton (or another raw material, like wool ... the spinning ...

Josh Steger, owner of Icon, a fiber arts studio and yarn shop in De Pere, named the business after his grandmother, who his ...

To add to the store’s whimsy, Hansmeyer stores her yarn in a case that looks like it belongs in an old-fashioned general ...

If you love knitting, you're bound to have lots of half balls of yarn in your craft stash. We've got the perfect solution: make them into yarn cakes. What are yarn cakes? They're tightly wound balls ...

One day they might needle felt a wall hanging and the next they might wet felt soap or learn how to spin wool into yarn.

To untangle it, they use a wooden comb with metal teeth. A wooden spindle is then used to turn the wool into yarn. These steps take several days. In the past, making one kilogram of yarn took around 4 ...

A determined group of Kangaroo Island farmers has turned an unlikely dream into reality by opening a local wool mill in the ...