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-# Spinning+This topic is part of [[gt:crafts|Crafts & making]]. 
 +====== Spinning ======
  
  
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-## What is spinning?+===== What is spinning? =====
  
 Spinning is creating yarn from fibre; it could be fleece straight from a sheep, or fibre that you’ve bought, dyed or undyed. As well as [sheep’s wool](/shep/sheep), the fibre could be silk, [alpaca](/alps/alpacas), mohair,  or [plant fibres](/pltf/plant_fibres) such as cotton, flax, ramie (nettle fibre), hemp – anything that can be spun. The yarn can then be used in a range of ways (depending on how it’s spun): gossamer lace for a shawl; novelty or chunky yarns for knitting, crochet or weaving; or rope from flax or hemp. Spinning is creating yarn from fibre; it could be fleece straight from a sheep, or fibre that you’ve bought, dyed or undyed. As well as [sheep’s wool](/shep/sheep), the fibre could be silk, [alpaca](/alps/alpacas), mohair,  or [plant fibres](/pltf/plant_fibres) such as cotton, flax, ramie (nettle fibre), hemp – anything that can be spun. The yarn can then be used in a range of ways (depending on how it’s spun): gossamer lace for a shawl; novelty or chunky yarns for knitting, crochet or weaving; or rope from flax or hemp.
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-## What are the benefits of spinning?+===== What are the benefits of spinning? =====
  
 - If you know how to spin, you can make beautiful yarns yourself that would be very expensive, or even impossible to buy - If you know how to spin, you can make beautiful yarns yourself that would be very expensive, or even impossible to buy
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-## What can I do?+===== What can I do? =====
  
 First, learn as much as you can. Here’s our free [online course](http://lowimpactorg.onyx-sites.io/spinning-course/) on all aspects of spinning. The tutor is Janet Renouf-Miller of [Create With Fibre](https://www.facebook.com/groups/createwithfibre/). First, learn as much as you can. Here’s our free [online course](http://lowimpactorg.onyx-sites.io/spinning-course/) on all aspects of spinning. The tutor is Janet Renouf-Miller of [Create With Fibre](https://www.facebook.com/groups/createwithfibre/).
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-## Further resources+===== Forum ===== 
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 +This topic belongs to the section [[gt:crafts|Crafts & making]]. You can ask questions or add information on the corresponding [Forum section](https://forum.growingthecommons.org/t/crafts). 
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 +===== Further resources =====
  
 - [online course](http://lowimpactorg.onyx-sites.io/spinning-course/) - free online course on all aspects of spinning. The tutor is Janet Renouf-Miller of [Create With Fibre](https://www.facebook.com/groups/createwithfibre/). - [online course](http://lowimpactorg.onyx-sites.io/spinning-course/) - free online course on all aspects of spinning. The tutor is Janet Renouf-Miller of [Create With Fibre](https://www.facebook.com/groups/createwithfibre/).
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 +===== Related topics =====
  
-## Related topics+- [[goat:Goats]] 
 +- [[craf:Craft| Craft production]] 
 +- [[licl:clothes|Low-impact clothes]] 
 +- [[sewi:Sewing]] 
 +- [[pltf:Plant fibres]] 
 +- [[ntdy:Natural dyes]] 
 +- [[weav:Weaving]] 
 +- [[knit:knitting|Knitting & crochet]] 
 +- [[shep:Sheep]] 
 +- [[alps:Alpacas]]
  
  
-## Specialist curators of this topic+===== Specialist curators of this topic =====
  
  
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