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The world of fiber is truly wonderful...
It all started in the early 80s when my friend Kim Wintje decided to sell her Nilus 4-harness loom. "Incredible", I thought. I always wanted to learn to weave. I bought the loom and with it Kim included boxes and boxes of yarn. That's how it started. Then came workshop after workshop to learn as much as I could about the fiber arts: weaving, needlepoint, crochet, tatting, spinning, fiber production, hand knitting, knitting machines, design software and production knitting. I've been at it for 20 odd years and I can not imagine my life without yarns and needles. |
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"The lyf so short, the crafte so long to lerne." - Geoffrey Chaucer
I decided to name my store/studio THE YARNWINDER in honor of my mother-in-law, Jean King. Way back as a newly wed, I started collecting primitive antiques; and one Christmas she gave me a 150 year old skein winder.
None of us knew what it was but it looked great with all the other antiques. Years went by before I knew its function. During a spinning workshop I noticed a winder very much like mine. "What is that?" I asked. The instructor responded, "We'll come to that later when I show you how to skein your yarn—it's a yarnwinder." |
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It’s a great name loaded with many connotations and references to the fiber arts; but one of my favorites is Leonardo da Vinci’s painting Madonna with the Yarnwinder.
If you visit http://gallery.euroweb.hu/html/l/leonardo/05copies/1yarnwin.html and enlarge the picture you'll see the child holding a niddy-noddy winder. Isn't it wonderful?
Barbara King |
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