PLY - The Magazine for Handspinners, Issue 49, Summer 2025: Tension
PLY - The Magazine for Handspinners, Issue 49, Summer 2025: Tension
The Spring 2025 Hue issue takes you on a journey from natural colors of sheep breeds and the genetics explaining how we get various colors to looking at some of the first colors humans dyed cloth to choosing and blending and dyeing all the colors on fiber and yarn. There’s so much in this colorful issue that you’ll want to read it again and again!
Description
Description
Tension might seem like something we want to avoid, but we use tension all the time when we spin, from our wheel systems to how we manage the yarns we create. The Tension issue will help you remove tension in your body and head by explaining and exploring all the ways tension is useful when you are spinning.
What material should you use for your drive band and your brake band?
How do you know when you might want to increase the take-up or decrease the take-up when creating a specific yarn?
How does adjusting the tension and angle while plying affect the yarn and how can you use that to create different textured and art yarns?
How do you make sure your tension is right when using various long draw techniques?
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