Natural Fiber a Spin.Off Directory! Sponsored By

Winter 2015 Special Advertising Section Natural Fiber A Spin.Off Directory! Sponsored by

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elcome to Spin.Off ’s annual fiber directory, our one-stop guide to fiber resources throughout the Wworld. Supporting the shepherds, farmers, and horticulturists who preserve the rare breeds of sheep, cultivate shades of natural colored cotton, and nurture the silk worms means that we will continue to have choices when it comes time to select a fiber for a project. So enjoy your ability to choose your fiber, and enjoy poring over these listings and fantasizing about your next foray into the land of natural fiber.

—Anne Merrow Editor of Spin.Off magazine

ARIZONA CALIFORNIA Cotton Clouds—Safford Royal Fibers/Columbine www.cottonclouds.com Spinning Wheels—Dixon [email protected] www.columbinespinning (800) 322-7888 wheels.com; www.royal Cotton fibers.co Quality Sea Island, Pima, Acala, [email protected] Green and Brown-Pima Easy-to- (707) 249-3276 Spin® Sliver. Ginned Acala and Pima Guanaco, alpaca, mohair, CVM, Merino, cotton, Combed and Carded Supima® Karakul, Wensleydale cotton slivers, Learn to Spin Cotton Royal Fibers offers white-collar fibers at kits, cotton bolls, takli spindles, blue-collar prices! ALL fleeces, rovings, DVDs, Handspinning Cotton book and yarns grown in the U.S.! Also updated by Joan Ruane, cotton seeds, Columbine Spinning Wheels made in and more! our shop at the ranch. Brookmoore Creations Lisa Souza Dyeworks— Courtesy of Robin Lynde LLC—Tucson Placerville www.brookmoorecreations www.lisaknit.com .com [email protected] brookmoorecreations@earth (530) 647-1183 MoonLight Alpacas—Wallace Suri Network—Estes Park link.net Bluefaced Leicester, Merino, Polwarth, www.calalpacas.com www.surinetwork.org (520) 744-1926 Wensleydale, alpaca, angora, cashmere, [email protected] [email protected] Wholesale Easy to Spin® earth friendly silk, yak, baby camel (209) 786-5060 (970) 586-5876 cotton We specialize in luxury fibers and wools Suri alpaca Suri alpaca Acala, Natural Green, Pima, Pima with the finest hand, dyed in fabulous Skirted suri fleeces available; blankets “Suri Network—Rarest of Breeds, Brown and Sea Island Cotton Slivers, colors to stir your imagination. and neck/leg fiber. Many colors, micron Ultimate Natural Fiber.” See fiber and Shopkeeper’s Starter Boxes and takli Macedo’s Mini Acre— & lengths to choose from. yarn for sale at http://surimarket Spindles. Your cotton spinning customers .surinetwork.org/store. ® Turlock deserve the best—Easy-to-Spin Earth- www.macedosminiacre.com COLORADO La Plata Farms—Hesperus friendly cotton slivers. [email protected] Gypsy Wools—Boulder www.laplatafarms.com Grandma’s Spinning (209) 648-2384 www.gypsywools.com [email protected] Wheel—Tucson Huacaya alpaca, Suri alpaca, llama [email protected] laplatafarms@gobrainstorm www.grandmasspinning Fleeces, rovings, batts, and yarn. Alpaca (303) 442-1884 .net wheel.com colors include white, brown, black, gray Various wools, alpaca, llama, mohair, silk (970) 749-5485 [email protected] and patterns. Natural dye sources also Gypsy Wools carries hand-dyed, hand- Navajo Churro: raw fleece, roving. (520) 290-3738 used for colorful combinations. painted, natural color fibers and a Merino/silk blends. Rambouillet: raw Various wools, wool blends, alpaca Meridian Jacobs—Vacaville variety of breeds including some rare and fleece, top. Exotic blends. blends, silk, silk/wool blends, silk/ www.meridianjacobs.com heritage breeds. We purchase high-quality In business for over 30 years, dealers for alpaca blends, cotton, flax, hemp, [email protected] fiber from breeders and artisan mills. Louet, Schacht, Ashford, Ashland Bay, bamboo (707) 688-3493 Jefferson Farms Natural Clemes and Clemes, Navajo spinning Grandma’s Spinning Wheel, where the Jacob wool, local fibers Fibers—Denver and Salida and weaving supplies, Navajo looms, creative come to play. We carry the Quality Jacob sheep, fiber and yarn; www.jeffersonfarmsnatural spindles, warp, weft. unusual in tools, fibers, and equipment friendly fiber arts classes, spinning and fibers.com Desert Weyr LLC—Paonia for spinners, weavers, felters, knitters, and weaving equipment, retail yarn sales, [email protected] www.desertweyr.com crocheters. books, custom weaving, lambskins, gifts, (303) 870-3056 [email protected] farm tours. (303) 434-8052 (970) 527-3573 Paco-vicuña, Suri Paco-vicuñas as well Wool as a few alpaca, Suri alpaca Black Welsh Mountain Sheep raw We have the largest herd of PVs, and fleeces, roving, combed top, yarn and focus on high quality, uniformity quilt batts all available at our farm and cleanliness to produce our finest store or via mail order. fibers. Raw fleeces, roving, and yarns in 13–23 micron with 3–5" IDAHO staples. Farms in both Salida and Alpaca Direct, LLC—Hayden Denver, with over 450 animals we www.AlpacaDirect.com have what you want! [email protected] Bijou Basin Ranch—Elbert (208) 209-7079 www.BijouBasinRanch.com Bluefaced Leicester, Corriedale, Merino, [email protected] Polwarth, Huacaya alpaca, bamboo, yak (303) 601-7544 Luxury fibers in natural and over Yak 100 dyed colors. Schacht spinning Drop spindle or wheel, yak fiber draws wheels and spindles. A variety of fiber easily to yield beautiful yarns for all tools. Visit us at 1016 W. Hayden skill levels from beginner to expert. Ave. or order online. courtesy of erin fogo. photo by christa tippmann. Micron counts are 14–16 to make a truly soft yarn.

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A Child’s Dream Come Springtide Farm—Bremen Bluefaced Leister, Corriedale, Coopworth, Saga Hill is the home of author and True—Sandpoint www.springtidefarm.com Icelandic, Merino, New Zealand, Romney, designer W. J. Johnson and Minnesota www.achildsdream.com [email protected] alpaca, camel, silk Series Dyes—hand-whipped, low- [email protected] (207) 529-5747 Along with a full line of natural fibers, we impact dyes. We feature dyed and undyed (800) 359-2906 Cashmere stock colored and hand-painted rovings, silk & silk-blend fibers and yarns. (208) 255-1664 Specializing in producing some of natural and chemical dyes, spinning Corriedale, Merino, Wilde Wool, Organic the finest cashmere from our North wheels and accessories. Classes available. MONTANA Fairy Wool, Silk Hankies, Merino/Silk American cashmere goats. Yarn and roving Serenity Sheep Farm Stay— An extensive selection of dyed and available on line in natural and dyed MICHIGAN Belgrade undyed fibers for spinning, felting, nuno shades, patterns, and handknit products. Jehovah Jireh Woolmill— www.serenitysheepfarmstay and wool creations. 100% wool felt, Spunky Eclectic—Lisbon Paw Paw .com dyes, cotton gauze, silk yardage and www.spunkyeclectic.com www.woolmill.com serenitysheepfarmstay@gmail scarves also available. Free or flat rate [email protected] [email protected] .com shipping in the U.S.! (207) 353-9665 (269) 366-7952 (406) 580-7176 Bluefaced Leicester, Corriedale, Longwool, (269) 366-5345 Romney, Shetland, llama INDIANA Merino, various other wools, bamboo, Alpaca, BFL, Tunis, Corriedale Stay a night or a week in our antique Gwenyth Glynn Longwools— cashmere, cotton, silk All fibers from the Midwest U.S.! 50% Shepherder’s wagons. Spin amongst the Sellersburg We have over 100 types, breeds, and alpaca/50% wool, hand-dyed rovings sheep in the field & knit against the www.gwenythglynn.com blends of natural fibers on hand at in approximately 100 colors, felting kits Big Sky! [email protected] all times. and supplies, hand-dyed locks, hand-dyed (502) 552-5782 prefelts, original knitting patterns. NEW Teeswater, Wensleydale MASSACHUSETTS Ewe-nique Knits—Royal Oak HAMPSHIRE Locks, fleeces and yarns from our flock New England Felting www.ewe-niqueKnits.com of Wensleydale sheep and Teeswater Supply—Easthampton [email protected] Harrisville Designs, Inc.— sheep—known for long lustrous locks. www.feltingsupply.com (248) 584-3001 Harrisville Also breeding stock available. [email protected] Bluefaced Leicester, Jacob, Longwool, www.harrisville.com (413) 527-1188 Merino, Shetland, Targhee, Huacaya [email protected] KENTUCKY Merino batts, Norwegian C-1, Pelsull, alpaca, angora, mohair, silk (603) 827-3333 Featuring Michigan Fibers and so Alpacas of the Covenant Wensleydale, Karakul, local wools, locks, Manufacturers of Fine Natural much more! Inc./All Things Alpaca LLC— art batts, Merino top, silk Yarns, Floor Looms and Equipment, Cold Spring (northern KY/ Quantity discount program. Trusted Children’s Fiber Products including greater Cincinnati) resource and national destination for in- MINNESOTA Potholder Kits and Loops. They hold www.allthingsalpacaonline depth felting knowledge and unmatched Saga Hill Designs— 3–5 day workshops from February– .com inventory. Renown workshops in debuting Crystal Bay November with local, nationally and [email protected] international techniques, local & www.sagahill.com internationally recognized instructors (859) 781-7741 international instructors. [email protected] and offer inexpensive housing for Huacaya alpaca Facebook/Ravelry/Instagram/ students. Their Retail Store is one of The Fiber Loft—Harvard the most beautiful yarn shops in the Yarn (natural colors and hand painted www.thefiberloft.com Twitter: SagaHill skeins), rovings, felt, and raw fiber from (952) 472-4155 country and includes the complete [email protected] line of Brooklyn Tweed. Harrisville our herd for sale. Handmade garments (978) 456-8669 Silk/silk blends, wool/wool blends, bast and throws. Alpaca Fleece-filled Bird bamboo, hemp sample cards available. Nesting Ball™ (patent pending). The Fiber Studio—Henniker Unique gift. Huacaya breeding livestock www.fiberstudio.com for sale (foundation females, herdsires [email protected] and crias). Herdsire breedings. (603) 428-7830 Bluefaced Leicester, Cormo, Merino, MAINE Romney, Suri alpaca, bamboo, angora, camel, cashmere, mohair, silk Halcyon Yarn—Bath Incredible selection of fibers, spinning www.halcyonyarn.com wheels, books and supplies. Natural dyes, [email protected] felting supplies, as well as knitting and (800) 341-0282 weaving yarns and equipment. From Alpaca to Yak, we have it all (A–Y, Zebra not available yet!) Long Ridge Farm— Cottons, silks, wools, and many more Westmoreland exquisite exotic fibers and blends. www.longridgefarm.com Natural fibers ready to spin and to [email protected] felt. Natural colors, commercially dyed, (603) 313-8393 hand-dyed and blended. Sample cards CVM/Romeldale available. CVM/Romeldale sheep, the rarest breed in North America today with COURTESY OF next-to-skin softness. Raw fleece, yarns, MIMI FOSTER spinning fibers, and specialty textiles in a variety of natural and organically dyed hues.

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NEW JERSEY Nistock Farms—Prattsburgh Hippie Chix Fiber Art— Dancing Waters Farm— www.nistockfarms.com Cullowhee Hampton [email protected] www.hippiechixfiber.etsy www.mohair-fiber.com (607) 522-4374 .com [email protected] Pure Cotswold; crossbreds of Border [email protected] (908) 989-0393 Leicester, CVM, Rambouillet, Finn, Romney (828) 293-2420 Bluefaced Leicester, Icelandic, Jacob, White and natural color high-luster, curly, Longwool, Merino, Polwarth, Shetland, various other wools, llama, mohair raw Cotswold fleece. Dyed and natural Wensleydale, angora, camel, Buy direct from a small animal colored roving. Medium and long wool cashmere, llama, mohair, silk, yak friendly U.S.A. farm: naturally crossbred fleeces. Black, white, gray, moorit. I carry many more fibers like angora colored/hand-dyed mohair & wools, locks and luxury fiber blends. Many types of sari and silk natural and courtesy of Martha Ives. roving, custom batts, fiber CSAs and NORTH Photo By Christa Tippmann handspun/U.S.A. millspun yarns. CAROLINA hand-dyed available. NEW YORK New World Textiles, LLC— PENNSYLVANIA Fluffy U Fiber Farm LLC—Dover Black Mountain Marushka Farms—Danville www.fluffyufiberfarm.com Alpacatrax, LLC— www.NewWorldTextiles.com [email protected] Pound Ridge www.marushkafarms.com [email protected] [email protected] (717) 887-2364 www.alpacatrax.com (828) 669-1870 Bluefaced Leicester, Leicester Longwool, [email protected] (570) 490-4759 Organic cotton, cotton blends, CVM, CVM/Romeldale, Icelandic, Teeswater, Wensleydale, Huacaya alpaca, (914) 764-4778 Premordanted Dye-Lishus® cotton angora, mohair Cormo wool, Huacaya alpaca Icelandic/CVM/Romeldale cross Cotton, charkha, khadi! Make friends Raw fleeces, roving, and combed top Natural colored and hand-dyed wool, Alpacatrax is a family-owned farm in with your charkha, weave with your alpaca, angora, mohair and various fiber the NY Hudson Valley. We specialize in available at all times. Full range of handspun singles. Spinning Cotton on natural colors. blends. Natural and hand-dyed yarns and quality alpaca fleece, roving, alpaca/ the Charkha DVD. Sliver, yarn, fabric, spinning fibers. Handspun as well as local custom yarns, felts and finished product charkhas and accessories, instruction. mill spun yarns. Raw fleeces when available. for inspiration.

Salida Fiber Festival [email protected] MISSISSIPPI Events & • September 12–13, 2015 (502) 682-4173 Magnolia State Fiber orkshops Riverside Park A natural, all things fiber, local food W Salida, CO event. In cooperation with Lexington Festival CALIFORNIA www.salidafiberfestival.org Parks and Recreation and The Bluegrass May 29–30, 2015 [email protected] Classic Stockdog Trials. Vicksburg Convention Vista Fiber Arts Fiesta (719) 221-9179 (Penny Wilken) Center October 3–4, 2015 Get your fiber fix here! Huge array of MASSACHUSETTS Vicksburg, MS Antique Gas & Steam www.msff.net vendors (70+), demonstrations, classes, MA Sheep and Woolcraft Engine Museum activities for adults and children, spin- [email protected] Vista, CA Fair (601) 415-7679 in, food vendors, and beer garden. Join us May 23–24, 2015 www.vistafiberartsfiesta.com for a Colorado getaway! Come join us for our third celebration! [email protected] Cummington Fairgrounds We have fun down here! 25+ vendors (760) 533-5857 INDIANA Cummington, MA and nearly 30 classes. Enjoy the history A gathering of fiber artists: weavers, www.masheepwool.org that is Vicksburg. spinners, felters, knitters. Yarn and fiber, The Fiber Event Two full days of dog trials, workshops, including raw wool, roving, exotic April 17–18, 2015 contests, fleece show and sale, vendors. NEW JERSEY Putnam County Bring your friends! fibers, handspun yarn, hand dyed and Garden State Sheep Breeders hand painted yarns. Admission free. Fairgrounds Greencastle, IN MICHIGAN Sheep & Fiber Festival www.thefiberevent.com September 12–13, 2015 COLORADO Spring Fiber Expo Hunterdon County [email protected] March 28–29, 2015 Felter’s Rendezvous (765) 379-2578 Fairgrounds March 6–10, 2015 Shop 100+ booths for raw and Fall Fiber Expo Lambertville, NJ In the Colorado Rockies processed fibers. Event features Indiana October 24–25, 2015 www.njsheep.org Estes Park, CO Producers and fiber artists. Spinning, Washtenaw Farm Council [email protected] www.thefeltingsource.com weaving, knitting supplies, and Grounds Fiber vendors • Workshops • Border [email protected] workshops are available both days. Ann Arbor, MI Collie Herding demonstrations • Breed (866) 484-8625 www.fiberexpo.com exhibit • Fleece show/sale. Come join Jean Gauger, Carol Cypher, Dawn KENTUCKY [email protected] us for a day in the country! Edwards & Diane Christian are offering (734) 546-0032 fabulous felting workshops in the 6th Annual Kentucky Visit with fiber artists in weaving, NEW YORK Sheep and Fiber Festival serenity of Springtime in the Rockies. knitting, felting, dyeing & more. Come CNY Fiber Artists & Pro May 16–17, 2015—workshops enjoy Fiber Expo and take away a and festival ducers: Annual Fiber Festival touch of nature at her best. Classes and June 13-14, 2015 Masterson Station Park workshops available. Lexington, KY Butternut Hill www.kentuckysheepandfiber Bouckville, NY .com

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TENNESSEE Shop our expansive selection of natural Bluefaced Leicester, Corriedale, Finnsheep, farm-raised and commercial spinning Manx Loughton, Merino, Norwegian, Accessories Smoky Mountain Spinnery— and felting fibers; our colorful wall of Perendale, Huacaya alpaca, mohair, silk Gatlinburg weaving yarn; Columbine, Schacht, A cooperative shop, stocking fiber from OREGON www.smokymountainspinnery Ashford, Kromski, and Glimakra tools and around the world as well as wool raised in .com The Oregon • equipment; classes in weaving, spinning, our own backyards (literally). Supplies for ® nancy@smokymountain dyeing, and felting. spinning, knitting, weaving, felting, dyeing. Wood Worker spinnery.com Thursday night social. www.yarnswifts.com (865) 436-9080 FiberLady.com—Lewisville (541) 773-7565 Angora, bamboo, buffalo, camelid family, www.fiberlady.com Crooked Fence Farm—Putney Handcrafted Yarn Swifts™ to cashmere, milk, mohair, possum blends, [email protected] www.crookedfencefarm-vt.com handle all size skeins from 18 various wools, yak (214) 803-1243 [email protected] inches to 24 feet in circumference Come relax and shop in the comfortable Corriedale, Merino, alpaca, bamboo, cotton, (802) 387-5790 for Yarn Dyers, Spinners, Weavers surroundings of Smoky Mountain Spinnery. flax, hemp Romeldale/CVM, Merino, cashmere and Knitters. All swifts mount Equipment and supplies for spinning, Fiberlady offers handpainted fibers in Raw fleece, roving and yarn from our vertically and horizontally and weaving, knitting, crocheting, and felting. bamboo, hemp, flax, bamboo/wool, and Merino and rare CVM/Romeldale sheep. replace the umbrella swift, Studio space, classes, demonstrations, bamboo/alpaca blends. Custom color orders Fine, soft wool in natural and naturally warping board and niddy noddy. antiques and gifts. accepted. dyed colors. Stock available for breeding or handspinner’s flock. VERMONT TEXAS VIRGINIA Finnsheep fleeces, white and natural colored, Fancy Fibers—Farmersville Six Loose Ladies & Friends—A dyed locks, rovings, and tops for spinning www.fancyfibers.com Yarn Shop with a Sense of Misty Mountain Farm— in natural and hand-dyed colorways. Farm [email protected] Humor—Proctorsville Amissville yarns, natural and handpainted. Fiber (972) 616-FARM (3276) www.sixlooseladies.com www.mistymountainfarm.com equipment and instruction. Shetland wool, Suri alpaca, mohair, silk, [email protected] [email protected] bamboo, organic cotton (802) 226-7373 (540) 937-4707 Finnsheep, Bluefaced Leicester, mohair

www.cnyfiber.org SOUTH DAKOTA VERMONT WISCONSIN [email protected] (315) 899-7792 Black Hills Fiber Arts Fair 27th Annual Vermont Sheeping Beauty Fibre Arts Over 100 booths: vendors, April 23–25, 2015 Sheep & Wool Festival Workshops demonstrations, fiber animals, exhibits, Dahl Arts Center October 3–4, 2015 Year-round and children’s activities in a rural Rapid City, SD Tunbridge Fairgrounds Sheeping Beauty Fibre Arts setting only 35 miles from Syracuse. www.BlackHillsFiberArtsFair Tunbridge, VT Hartford, WI .org www.vtsheepandwoolfest.org www.sheepingbeautyfibrearts CNY Fiber Frolic CLASSES: Kathleen Taylor, Becka Rahn, [email protected] .com April 18, 2015 Stephanie Higgs, Carol Wagner, and (802) 592-3062 [email protected] Beaver Lake Nature Center others. Juried VENDORS: Whether Featuring an animal barn with sheep, (262) 623-0244 Baldwinsville, NY you are a beginner or experienced, goats, llamas, alpacas, rabbits. 70+ This is a fiber art school offering classes www.goldenfleecespinners you’ll find a class to excite you and vendors of fiber crafting supplies, in all spinning/weaving, knitting, society.org vendors with what you want and need! handcrafted wool items, fleeces, sheep crochet, felting levels. Our supplies are [email protected] Learn—Shop —Vacation equipment/supplies, fencing, meat, from Ashford, Cascade, etc., and local Celebrating local “farm to customer” cheese. Sheepdog herding demos, contests, breeders. products, including custom yarns, fiber arts demos, music, local food. spinning fibers, knitting supplies, books, TENNESSEE Wisconsin Sheep & Wool accessories, finished goods and soaps. Smoky Mountain Fiber Arts Festival Weave on our Story Loom. Learn to spin. Festival WASHINGTON September 11–13, 2015 April 17–19, 2015 Northwest Regional Jefferson County Fair OREGON Great Smoky Mountains Spinners Association 2015 Park Heritage Center Conference Jefferson, WI Columbia Gorge Fiber Townsend, TN “From Baa to Bast, Camelid, www.wisconsinsheepandwool Festival www.smokymountainfiberarts Cotton and Beyond” festival.com November 6-8, 2015 festival.org May 28–31, 2015 [email protected] Oregon Readiness Center [email protected] Tacoma, WA (608) 868-2505 The Dalles, OR 97058 (865) 448-0859 www.nwregionalspinners.org The Midwest’s premier sheep & fiber www.columbiagorgefiber FREE ADMISSION for family Fiber vendors, workshops on spinning, event! 70+ classes, sheep shows, festival.com activities, demonstrations, vendor knitting, dyeing, felting and more. shearing demonstrations, stock dog trial, [email protected] marketplace, and live animal displays. Gallery exhibits & contests. Fiber newborn lambs, fleece shows/sales, (541) 308-0002 FEE REQUIRED for classes. Visit Marketplace & Spin-In open to the educational clinics, workshops. Shop The 5th annual CGFF offers workshops website for details, vendor and class public on Friday & Saturday, May in comfort in the Country Store with with renowned teachers and an outstanding lists, how to register for classes. 29–30, 9:00 am–5:00 pm. 130+ vendors. marketplace with over 50 Pacific North west vendors featuring products for knitting, crocheting, spinning, weaving and more!

Special Advertising Section Natural Fiber Mangham Manor Wool & . Mohair Farm—Charlottesville A Spin Off Directory! www.wool.us [email protected] (434) 973-2222 (434) 882-2222 Various wools, alpaca, bamboo, cashmere, flax, llama, mohair, silk We have a natural-colored flock of 500 ewes with every shade of gray, brown, black, and ivory. We breed for fine, colored wool fleeces and mohair ringlets. Stony Mountain Fibers— Charlottesville www.StonyMountainFibers .com Barbara@StonyMountainFibers .com (434) 295-2008 Cormo, Cormo blends, Corriedale, Merino, bamboo, buffalo, cotton, flax, hemp, silk courtesy of Jefferson Farms Natural Fibers We have everything you need to create the perfect yarn or felted project. Lots of colors in rovings and tops. NW Handspun Yarns— Woolgatherings—Duvall Magic Willows Alpacas— Echo Valley Fiber—Millboro Bellingham www.woolgatheringsfibers Hartford www.EchoValleyFiber.com www.nwhandspunyarns.com .com www.magicwillowsalpacas [email protected] [email protected] info@woolgatheringsfibers .com (215) 497-3188 (360) 738-0167 .com btkk@magicwillowsalpacas Huacaya alpaca, Suri alpaca Polwarth, Merino, angora, silk, local BFL, Merino, Polwarth, silk blends, .com We carry pure natural colors of our own blends, painted rovings, various luxury alpaca, angora (414) 217-5836 private herd, as well as gorgeous blended fibers Woolgatherings carries a wide variety Suri alpaca rovings. Perfect for spinners! From buttons to wheels, skeins to roving, of premium natural fibers, including our Suri alpaca fiber available in natural colors weaving equipment to inspiration, we popular 28-breed fiber samplers. We from white to black. Raw fiber, twisted WASHINGTON offer a wonderful selection to help you specialize in colorful hand-painted tops. locks, roving, yarns (lace to light sport Foxglove Fiberarts Supply— with your next projects. RowanTree Woolery—Yakima weight), felts and cotton-cored rug yarn. Bainbridge Island ME2 Custom Fiber Processing www.rowantreewoolery.com www.foxglovefiber.com Farm—Colville [email protected] UNITED STATES [email protected] www.me2farm.com (509) 388-5619 National CVM Conservancy Inc. (206) 780-2747 [email protected] Various wools, Suri & Huacaya alpaca, www.nationalcvmconservancy Corriedale, Merino, silk, English Leicester, (509) 684-5623 alpaca/wool blends, bamboo, angora, .com alpaca, camel, cashmere Registered Montadale sheep, colored fine camel, silk, yak, Soysilk [email protected] Foxglove Fiberarts Supply offers the full fiber sheep, cashmere fibers Distributor of Majacraft, Louet, Baynes (570) 490-4759 line of Ashford dyed and natural fibers as In NE Washington, we own and operate wheels/accessories, Howard Brush, CVM/Romeldales well as scrumptious silks and exotics. ME2 Custom Fiber Processing and Brother and Louet carders. Lots of Critically endangered, CVM/ Dehairing Mill. We enjoy blending your color! Natural animal/plant fiber and Romeldale sheep offer fine fleece in a fibers for those special times. blends. Knitting needles, commercial and range of colors and patterns. Visit our handspun yarn! website to learn more and find a local breeder. WISCONSIN Susan’s Fiber Shop— Columbus Natural www.susansfibershop.com [email protected] Dyes • (888) 603-4237 Merino, Polwarth, Teeswater, camel, WASHINGTON cashmere, cotton, flax, hemp, mohair, Earthues, A Natural silk, yak Dye Company Susan’s is filled with a variety of blends Seattle, WA from Merino, Polwarth, Teeswater, silk, www.earthues.com cotton, and more. Come visit and see [email protected] the Teeswater sheep through the shop’s (206) 781-3184 windows. Your source for natural dye extracts, raw materials and courtesy of Myrtle and Roy Dow. Photo By Christa Tippmann how-to’s since 1994.

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