Finishing Hand spun Linen Yarn for weaving your homestead textiles

Handspun linen yarn after scouring is lighter in colour and has a softer, kinder hand.  Its ready now for weaving.

Homestead Fashion:  Grow a shirt or a towel in your garden One of the easiest fibers to grow on your homestead, for clothing and household textiles is linen.  It doesn’t require extra fertilizer.  It can grow in most climates with at least a one month growing season, and isn’t damaged by light frosts during the [...]

How to grow a shirt and other revolutionary ideas

A linen shirt that was handspun, handwoven and embroidered by a 9 year old in 1890 in Austria

Starting a revolution is overwhelming, but it helps to break it down into manageable steps.  If you follow each step and stick to the project, you can finish.  The benefit is a beautiful new wardrobe, created with your own hands and one blow to industrial agriculture, global exploitation, and the dehumanizing multinational machine.  Each project [...]

Gandhi’s secret — sustainable clothing to revolutionize your wardrobe

This cloth is sacred - Gandhi

A sustainable textile heritage: What happened? While our ancestors grew, spun and wove or knit their own clothing, today we buy it in a store or online.  Our clothing travels many miles, touches many hands and assaults the water quality and air quality of many countries world wide, during its growth, manufacture and waste.  People [...]