Spinning in the Old Way: How (and Why) to Make Your Own Yarn with a High-Whorl Handspindle

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Priscilla A Gibson-Roberts

Spinning in the Old Way

How (and Why) to Make Your Own Yarn with a High-Whorl Handspindle

Priscilla A Gibson-Roberts

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Echo Point Books & Media, LLC
12 August 2025

Spinning & weaving; Rural crafts

Lean this Simple Method for Making Your Own Beautiful, Durable YarnSpinning in the Old Way is master spinner and knitter Priscilla Gibson-Roberts' complete guide to the craft of taking unspun fiber and turning it into perfect yarns with simple, inexpensive tools. Whether you're a newcomer to fiber crafts or a seasoned knitter or spinner, this book is indispensable.

Using thorough instructions and clear, detailed illustrations, Gibson-Roberts demonstrates that spinning is simple to learn, easy to do, economical, versatile, and efficient. All that's needed to begin is a spindle, some fiber, and a length of wool yarn. The technique she presents will produce a variety of high-quality yarns-woolen or worsted, high-twist or low-twist, fine or bulky-which can be utilized anywhere for any amount of idle time.

Weavers and knitters alike will find nothing but pleasure in following this simple, straightforward ""high-whorl"" method. In no time, practitioners will be producing their own beautiful, durable yarn.

This book is also available from Echo Point Books as a hardcover (ISBN 1635619599).

By: Priscilla A Gibson-Roberts
Imprint: Echo Point Books & Media, LLC
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 10mm
Weight: 245g
ISBN: 9781635619836
ISBN 10: 1635619831
Pages: 178
Publication Date: 12 August 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Priscilla Gibson-Roberts spent a number of years studying traditional ways of constructing sweaters and other garments, along with the associated design principles. She then created instructions to empower knitters to create original designs using time-tested methods that do not involve patterns. Knitting in the Old Way contains many lifetimes of inspiration and techniques. If you want to knit sweaters without following line-by-line instructions, Priscilla's guidance will let you do that. In addition to Knitting in the Old Way, she has given us High Whorling; Spinning in the Old Way (the revised edition of High Whorling); Simple Socks, Plain and Fancy; Ethnic Socks and Stockings; and Cowichan Indian Sweaters (formerly Salish Indian Sweaters).