Long Thread Media Workshops

[Video Only] Woven Shibori: Sewing with Crimp Cloth

In this video, Dianne Totten teaches how to sew garments with crimp cloth. With her expert instruction, you'll see how easy it is to sew with this ultra-flexible fabric. And there's no complex fitting because the fabric does the fitting for you

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[Video Only] A Spinner's Toolbox

As a spinner, your most important, versatile tools are your own skilled hands. With those eight fingers and two opposable thumbs, plus a half-dozen simple techniques for manipulating the fiber supply, you can spin a full suite of yarn styles.

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[Video Only] Woven Shibori: Designing Crimp Cloth

In this video, Dianne Totten teaches how to create her version of woven shibori, called “crimp cloth,” which uses heat-reactive fibers to create flexibility and visual excitement.

[Video Only] Spinning Luxury Fibers

In Spinning Luxury Fibers, your spinning world will rapidly expand as you learn how to handle luxury fibers from master spinner, Judith MacKenzie.

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[Video Only] Gentle Art of Plying

In Gentle Art of Plying, you’ll go beyond the basics of plying with Judith MacKenzie as she illustrates how to unlock the extensive world of yarn design and fabric construction.

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[Video Only] Popular Wheel Mechanics

In Popular Wheel Mechanics, you’ll learn the nuts and bolts of a wide range of popular spinning wheels and how to get the most out of each of them.

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[Video Only] Spinning the New Fibers

This course will teach you tips on how you can identify, blend, dye, spin, and use synthetic fibers.

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[Video Only] Spinner's Guide to Color Theory: Mastering Color Without Dyeing

In Spinner’s Guide to Color Theory: Mastering Color Without Dyeing, Judith MacKenzie shows you that there’s no need to set up a large dyeing studio in your home to get brilliant colors for your fleece.

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[Video Only] The Evolution of Wool

In The Evolution of Wool, Judith MacKenzie unlocks the secrets to understanding wool. You’ll learn how wool grows, how the thousands of sheep breeds we have today came from the very first sheep, and why this should matter to the contemporary spinner.

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[Video Only] Beginning Spinning on a Wheel

If handspun yarn has always intrigued you and you’re wondering how to use a spinning wheel, spinning expert Kate Larson is the perfect teacher to get you started.

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[Video Only] The Weaver’s Yarn Companion

The choice of yarn can make or break a weaving project, making the weaving experience and the finished project either satisfying or disappointing. In this video, master weaver Tom Knisely teaches you how to choose the perfect yarns for your projects.

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[Video Only] Spinning Silk: Sensuous, Successful Yarns from Luxurious Silk

In Spinning Silk with Sara Lamb, you'll see how easy it is to spin gorgeous, lush silk. Sara will show you how to spin a variety of silks using a drop spindle and spinning wheel. As a bonus, you'll also learn how to dye silk.

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[Video Only] How to Spin Yarn to Knit with Kate Larson

Create exactly the yarn that you want with handspinning expert Kate Larson as your guide. Creating yarn for knitting is different than creating for other textiles such as weaving or embroidery.

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[Video Only] Needle Felting Animals

In Needle Felting Animals, teacher, fiber artist, and professional feltmaker Sharon Costello, gives you all the information you need to start creating your own wonderful and whimsical needle-felted animals.

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[Video Only] Spin to Weave: Making Unique Cloth From Your Handspun Yarn

Do you want the rewarding feeling of knowing that you created your fabric from scratch? In Spin to Weave with Sara Lamb, you will learn how you can create your own handspun yarns to use in your weaving designs.

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[Video Only] Spinning Cotton

In Spinning Cotton, Stephenie Gaustad is out to revive an art that is often overlooked by today’s contemporary spinners; spinning cotton.

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[Video Only] The New Spinner’s Guide to Troubleshooting

Love spinning, but have persistent problems you can't seem to solve? Abby Franquemont answers your questions, shows examples, and demonstrates why these things happen and how to address them.

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[Video Only] Natural Dyeing

Who understands color better than Mother Nature? From quiet to riotous, nature’s color schemes are always harmonious, and natural dyes can be used to create beautiful, vibrant colorways.

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[Video Only] Twice as Nice: Weaving with Two Heddles on a Rigid-Heddle Loom

Liz Gipson will guide you in this video to discover the various fabrics you can weave with two heddles, starting with how to set up your loom in the direction warping method.

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[Video Only] Weave a Good Rug with Tom Knisely: From Fiber to Finish

In Weave a Good Rug, weavers will learn how to weave a rug from beginning to end in this beginning weaving tutorial. Master weaver, Tom Knisely, will take you through fiber selection as well as preparing materials.

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[Video Only] Life After Warping

Liz Gipson believes that weaving should be a fun and easy process for everyone. In Life After Warping you'll learn about the proper tools to use, how to transition colors smoothly, and what to do if you bust a warp thread.

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[Video Only] Weaving with Novelty Yarns

In this video, master weaver, mythbuster, and yarn explorer Tom Knisely shows that weaving yarn doesn't have to come on a cone, and that weaving with novelty yarns opens a whole new world of design possibilities for woven fabric.

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[Video Only] Overdyeing with Natural Dyes

Just as primary colors—blue, red, and yellow—combine to produce the rest of the color wheel, natural dyes can be combined and modified to produce the full color palette.

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[Video Only] Spinning Gossamer Threads: The Yarns of Orenburg

In Spinning Gossamer Threads, Galina Khmeleva takes you on a journey back in time to the place where the iconic Orenburg shawls were first created.

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[Video Only] Spin Flax and Cotton: Traditional Techniques

In Spinning Flax and Cotton, Norman Kennedy will teach you the time-honored techniques of spinning these two types of fibers. His master techniques will take you through the steps of processing and spinning flax and cotton.

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[Video Only] Slots and Holes: Three Ways to Warp a Rigid-Heddle Loom

In Slots and Holes, Liz Gipson will show will show you how to warp your rigid-heddle loom quickly and easily so that you can create anything from plain fabrics, to plaids or complex stripes.

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[Video Only] Wet-Finishing for Weavers with Laura Fry

In this video, professional weaver and teacher Laura Fry shows you how to wet-finish different kinds of fibers and cloth, from the magic that happens in the water through to proper pressing and drying techniques.

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[Video Only] The Efficient Weaver

The most common complaint of weavers is that they don't have enough time for weaving. Production weaver and teacher Laura Fry has an answer: weave more efficiently so you can make the most of the weaving time that you have.

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Block Weaves

Madelyn van der Hoogt designed Block Weaves specifically as an overview of all of the possibilities that you can use to create with block weaves.

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[Video Only] Get More Spun: Spinning For Sale

Join handspinning expert Abby Franquemont and delve into the pros and cons of turning your hobby into a small business.

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