Discover age-old techniques and enjoy making beautiful, all-natural fabrics with this comprehensive guide. Expert textile arts instructor Penny Walsh reveals everything you need to know to start producing your own high-quality custom fabrics.
Self-Sufficiency: Spinning, Dyeing & Weaving explains where different fibers come from, how to grow and harvest your own vegetable fibers, and how to prepare them for spinning. The principles of spindle and spinning wheel spinning are covered, along with home dyeing using natural dyestuffs, and hand weaving with or without a loom.
Four simple projects--a rug, shoulder bag, bed cover, and jumper and mitts--round off the book to put your newly learnt skills to the test.

Penny Walsh is the author of Yarn: How to Understand, Design and Use Yarn. A visiting lecturer in textile arts at several colleges in the U.K., Penny teaches and researches traditional techniques of dyeing and spinning, using ecologically sound ingredients and renewable sources. Part of the design group AO Textiles, she has worked on fabrics and yarns for Jean Muir, Pecler's of Paris, Laura Biagiotti, The Royal Opera House, and Aveda Eco Fashion.