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Teach Yourself Visually Handspinning (Teach Yourself Visually Consumer)
With its soothing, meditative effect, handspinning is a relaxing hobby, and the beautiful yarns you create are an even better reward. This visual guide shows you the basics, beginning with the tools and fibers, and takes you through spinning, plying, making novelty yarns, using exotic fibers, dyeing, and more. Whether you use an inexpensive hand spindle or splurge on a spinning wheel, stick with wool or try alpaca, cashmere, or cotton, you'll learn how to create fun, original, one-of-a-kind yarns that you can knit or weave into truly unique, handmade, and all-natural creations. Concise two-page lessons show you all the steps to a skill and are ideal for quick review - The skill demonstrated is defined and described
Detailed color photos demonstrate each step Step-by-step instructions accompany each photo Helpful tips provide additional guidance
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Price: $11.99
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Spindle's End (Firebird)
The evil fairy Pernicia has set a curse on Princess Briar-Rose: she is fated to prick her finger on the spindle of a spinning wheel and fall into an endless, poisoned sleep. Katriona, a young fairy, kidnaps the princess in order to save her; she and her aunt raise the child in their small village, where no one knows her true identity. But Pernicia is looking for her, intent on revenge for a defeat four hundred years old. Robin McKinley's masterful version of Sleeping Beauty is, like all of her work, a remarkable literary feat. "Full of humor and romance as well as magic and adventure. . . . A spellbinding novel." ( Booklist, starred review).
Price: $2.55
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Designs from Pre-Columbian Mexico (Dover Pictorial Archives)
300 bold, rhythmic circle designs, originally incorporated on small clay spindle weights, depicting man-like deities, animals both real and fantastic, reptiles, birds, flowers, masks, geometrical figures, wheels, foliage, maze-like patterns, frets — all employed with the boldness and fanciful characteristics of pre-Columbian art. .
Price: $5.00
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Precision Spindle Metrology
Theory and practice of measuring spindle motions at the nanometer level Useful for improving quality and minimizing machine downtime For turning, milling, and grinding machines, and production and inspection machinery of all kinds Clear explanations of the methods and mathematics of data analysis This new book, in the tradition of Schlesinger, Tlusty, Moore and Slocum, introduces and explains the fundamental concepts, as well as the technology, of measuring spindle motion. Its theory and guidance are applicable to a wide range of spinning devices. The book furnishes the mathematical tools to understand--and correct--various kinds of motion and rotational errors. Using case studies and practical examples, the author explains how to set up devices for measuring spindle motion. The book then presents a detailed analysis of precision spindle metrology data and demonstrates how the data can be utilized to understand and improve the performance of spindle-based machinery, measured to the nanometer level. The information in this book is intended to help refine precision measurements, thereby enabling more accurate control and higher production quality. The book will benefit engineers, quality control personnel, and precision machine specialists responsible for maintaining high standards of precision control..
Price: $164.11
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Spindle and Bow
Bevis Longstreth's SPINDLE AND BOW tells a story of love, adventure and the transcendent power of art at the dawning of civilization Set in 5th Century BC, this human drama spans some 3000 miles, from the ancient city of Sardis at the western edge of the Persian Empire in Anatolia, to the Scythian village of Pazyryk in the Altai Mountains of southwestern Siberia. Rachel, a young Sardian Jew, is a weaver of consummate skill in the royal workshop of Cyrus the Younger. Amid the opulence of the Sardian Court, she meets Targitus, a Scythian prince come west to learn the closely kept secrets of gold purification. What unfolds is the imaginative braiding of two lives, thrown together by chance, but resulting in the creation of the oldest known pile carpet in existence, preserved for future generations in a frozen tomb. The carpet, now in St. Petersberg's Hermitage Museum, is a towering achievement in art and weaving, unsurpassed by textiles of later eras..
Price: $31.99
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Cohoes Revisited (Images of America: New York)
Cohoes Revisited continues the pictorial history begun in Cohoes, the Spindle City Historic Society’s first book. It offers a second view of the city and its residents from the 19th century forward, honoring the rich heritage of this place near the confluence of the Hudson and Mohawk Rivers, which was transformed from a farming village to a center of commerce by the construction of the Erie Canal. The Cohoes Falls, the largest cataract east of Niagara, made Cohoes an industrial hub. Massive mill buildings, including one of the largest cotton mills in the world, were erected by the riverfront and along a network of power canals. To the mills came thousands of workers, a diverse group of immigrants who have given Cohoes its distinctive character. .
Price: $12.00
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