Resources

Our collection of links to external tutorials/guides/videos/etc to learn more about our various crafts.

YouTube Channels

Mijn Wolden

Jente, a Belgian YouTuber who does a ton of handspinning, natural dyes and knitting. Calls herself and her followers "chaos goblins" and this is very accurate. She has a very "fucking around and finding out" style.

JillianEve

Evie, an incredibly knowledgeable handspinner, weaver, knitter, etc, who has great wholesome vibes and comes at the craft from a very technical and scientific standpoint. Very much a teacher, very good tutorials, etc.

The Stitchery

Charlie is a very entertaining craftsperson and mostly does sewing as far as fiber goes. Her channel however is a lot more than just stitches, also including (since recently) garden renovations and woodcarving! Lots of good thoughts on crafts in general here.

Life Raising Sheep

Homesteaders who have a small flock of Icelandic sheep and do nice videos on the processing of their wool. Also the care of the sheep themselves (they're adorable).

The Last Homely House

A very nice English lady and her daughter-in-law do a lot of very beautiful quilting, well-explained.

Loose Videos

A collection of other videos that we like.

Hands: Wool Spinning

A beautiful 25 minute documentary from 1978 about wool spinning in Ireland. It showcases a few contemporary practices and the narrator talks about the historical culture around it.

Books

Wild Colour

Very comprehensive handbook to natural dye. Includes a charming history of natural dye, detailed guides for various methods of dyeing, and a pretty thorough reference for plants you can forage for and what colours they can produce with which methods and materials. Voskop's only note is that they would have liked to know that red onion peels produce green rather than the nice bright yellow that yellow onion peels make.

The Fleece and Fiber Source Book

The book that is regarded as a must-have for any handspinner who gets serious about spinning natural wool. Voskop wants this book and does not yet have opinions about it otherwise. It describes many sheep breeds (is there such a thing as "all"?) and their wool characteristics, some history of the breed, and how you can process it.

A Short History of the World According to Sheep

An entertaining book on how the history of sheep and humans have been intertwined for very long. The title is slightly misleading - it has a very heavy focus on Great Britain (and all the colonial/etc history that comes with that, be warned) once we get out of the very general "origin of sheep" history. Overall very nice perspective on how important woolcrafts and especially spinning has been throughout human history, and other such things that we tend to forget in our post-industrialist, globalist society. The writing tends to meander, which is neat.