4-H volunteer Lindsay McHugh, right, assists Aileen Gravot, 12, and her mom Christine make a macrame bracelet during a 4-H Yarn Club meeting, in Pitman, Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2013. Linda McHugh’s Pitman ...

Learn how to spin yarn by hand and get quality drop spindle instructions. Start using this tool that’s hardly changed since the Stone Age. I taught myself to spin when I was about 13 years old, using ...

Like knitting and crocheting, spinning — the process of twisting fibers together to make yarn — is enjoying a comeback. Textile artists want “to control the front end of their yarn,” says Sarah ...

Just in time for the summer crowds to descend on the Eastern End of Long Island, Guild Hall in East Hampton has opened an intriguing show of textile art, organized by collector and art historian ...

On Oct. 17, Hartford’s Real Art Ways hosts a one-time screening of a documentary about the most unusual of art media. “Yarn” profiles several artists around the world who knit or crochet yarn into ...

Rue Toland has been spinning yarn for over 20 years. It wasn’t until she moved to New Hampshire that she had a flock of her own sheep to shear and make homemade yarn. Sign up for the Concord Monitor's ...