Natural Fiber a Spin.Off Directory!

Winter 2010 Special Advertising Section Natural Fiber A Spin.Off Directory!

Last year when we were all celebrating the International Year of Natural Fiber, we thought what could be more natural to include in Spin.Off magazine than natural fiber? But since nearly every issue deals with the amazing, magical qualities of natural fiber—we had to stretch a bit to figure out how to celebrate it even more. The Natural Fiber Directory was born, and here it is in its second year in the middle of another issue chock-full of natural fiber. This is a one-stop, easy-to-take-with-you listing of fiber resources from around the world. These listings are important, not only for you, as you’re searching for the perfect fleece for your next project, but also, for the spinning community as a whole. Supporting the shepherds, farmers, and horticulturists who preserve the rare breeds of sheep, cultivate shades of natural-colored cotton, and nurture the silkworms means that we will continue to have choices when it comes time to select a fiber for a project—and that is what spinning is all about, isn’t it? Choices. We choose the fiber we want for the tex- ture of the yarn, we choose how we prepare it, what color it will be, and when it will be done. So, enjoy your ability to choose your fiber, enjoy poring over these listings and fan- tasizing about your next foray into the land of natural fiber.

Richard Regnery, Whitefish bay farm —Amy Clarke Moore Editor of Spin.Off magazine

Phreadde and Dan Davis Graham Phillipson, Littledale Farm Dana Foss, Royal Fibers Ranch

Arizona Grandma’s Spinning Wheel California Royal Fibers–Dixon –Tucson www.royalfibers.com Cotton Clouds–Safford www.grandmasspinningwheel Flynn Creek Churros– [email protected] www.cottonclouds.com .com Comptche (707) 249-3276 [email protected] [email protected] www.flynncreekchurros.com Guanaco, alpaca, mohair, CVM, Merino (800) 322-7888 (520) 290-3738 [email protected] Royal Fibers offers white-collar fibers at Bamboo, cotton, Soysilk Various wools, silk, cotton, flax, hemp, (707) 937-2086 blue-collar prices! Guanaco, alpaca, Merino, Quality spinning fibers: seed cotton, ginned bamboo Navajo-Churro, mohair and CVM wool. Fleeces, rovings, yarns Pima and Acala cotton, SuPima sliver, Navajo-Churro sheep and Angora goats ® Grandma’s Spinning Wheel, where the grown right here in the U.S.! colored FoxFibre sliver, All About Cotton creative come to play. We carry the unusual offering beautiful color varieties of award- spinning kits, cotton bolls, tahklis, DVDs, in tools, fibers, and equipment for spinners, winning fleeces, clipped twice annually. more. weavers, felters, knitters, and crocheters. Roving, handspun, weaving, felting, and natural dyes.

California We specialize in luxury fibers and wools resources directory on with the finest hand, dyed in fabulous colors our website at http:// A Simpler Time—Alpacas & to stir your imagination. surinetwork.org/snpdc/ Mill–El Cajon fiber_products.htm. www.asimplertimemill.com Dharma Trading Co–San Rafael [email protected] www.dharmatrading.com Switzer Land (619) 579-9114 [email protected] Alpacas–Estes Park Alpaca (415) 456-1211 www.alpacaland.com Custom fiber processing. Natural and hand- Wools, silk, bamboo, seasilk, flax, alpaca, [email protected] dyed alpaca yarn, roving, felt, batts. Online Tencel (970) 586-4624 shopping. Schacht Spindle looms, spinning Come visit our store in downtown San Alpaca, paco-vicuña wheels, accessories. Fiber/breeding stock Rafael. Everything for dyeing, spinning, and From our herd of over 100, Susan Gibbs, Martha's Vineyard Fiber Farm available. Free tours! felting, including a NEW line of Acid Dyes the best camelid fibers and in over 50 colors! yarns, in a variety of shades. Piedmont Yarn & Apparel In business for over 25 years, dealers for Prepared with the greatest care. Breeders Louet, Schacht, Ashford, specializing in –Oakland Colorado since 1985. www.piedmontyarn.com Navajo spinning and weaving supplies, piedmont.yarn@att.net Gypsy Wools–Boulder Jabberwocky Farm–Guffey Navajo looms, spindles, warp, weft, Navajo- (510) 595-9595 www.gypsywools.com www.jabberwockyfarm.com Churro roving. [email protected] Various wools, Navajo-Churro, Targhee, [email protected] Desert Weyr LLC–Paonia Wensleydale, alpaca, mohair (303) 442-1884 (719) 689-9502 Various wools, alpaca, angora, cashmere, www.desertweyr.com We carry a large range of locally produced Various wools, Shetland, alpaca, cashmere, [email protected] fibers, some natural, some dyed. Spinning llama, mohair, pygora, silk Colorado natural cashmere, cashmere Featuring hand-dyed, handpainted, natural (970) 527-3573 supplies and classes. Free Spin-Out every blends, natural and dyed colors; Shetland Wool 3rd Monday 5:30–8 p.m. Fiber Trunk colors, rare and heritage-breed fibers. We wool available in yarn, roving, wool clouds. purchase high-quality fiber from breeders Black Welsh Mountain Sheep coated raw Shows. Check out our goat milk soaps and Goat fleeces, roving, combed tops, yarn and quilt and artisan mills. Dyeing done in-house. to Garment DVD. Lisa Souza Dyeworks batts all available at our farm store or via –Placerville Suri Network–Estes Park La Plata Farms–Hesperus mail order. www.lisaknit.com www.surinetwork.org www.laplatafarms.com [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]; laplata (530) 647-1183 (970) 586-5876 [email protected] Bluefaced Leicester, Merino, Polwarth, Alpaca (970) 385-4375 Wensleydale, alpaca, angora, cashmere, silk “Suri Network—Rarest of Breeds, Navajo-Churro, Merino/silk blends, Ultimate Natural Fiber.” See our fiber mohair/wool blends, merino, exotic blends, alpaca and alpaca/silk.

Table Rock Llamas Fiber Arts Illinois Sheep Street Fibers Alpaca Studio and The DyeWorks –Morgantown Yarn, rovings, felt, and raw fiber from –Colorado Springs Illinois Wool & Fiber Mill www.sheepstreet.com our herd for sale. Alpaca fleece-filled bird www.tablerockllamas.com –Belvidere [email protected] nesting ball (patent pending). Unique gift. [email protected] www.ilwoolfibermill.com (812) 597-5648 Huacaya breeding livestock for sale. (866) 495-7747 [email protected] Various wools, alpaca, cashmere, angora, (815) 544-9582 2nd Annual Kentucky Sheep Various wools, angora, bamboo, bison, silk, cotton and Fiber Festival–Lexington camelid, latte, Soysilk, yak Shetland, Cotswold, Leister Longwool The shop, located on a 20-acre sheep farm, Full-service fiber mill with individual www.kentuckysheepandfiber Get your fiber fanatic fix here! Natural has a large selection of spinning wheels, .com dye extracts, twig and berry, plus acid dyes attention to customer’s needs. Processing looms, yarns, knitting needles, patterns, raw fiber to roving or yarn. No minimums. [email protected] and supplies for knitting, crochet, spinning books, and accessories. (502) 227-0783 and felting. All types of fiber. Iowa A natural fiber, local food event. Masterson Idaho Indiana Station Park, Lexington, KY. In cooperation C & M Acres–Maxwell with Lexington Parks and Recreation and Lamb to Loom–Lenore Farmhouse Fibers–Martinsville www.cmacres.com www.Farmhousefibers.com the Bluegrass Classic Stockdog Trials. May www.thespinnersflock.com [email protected] 21–22, 2011. [email protected] [email protected] (515) 387-8607 (208) 836-5646 (317) 834-9097 Alpaca Maine Various wools, Bluefaced Leicester, Llama, alpaca, wool, mohair, angora, silk, Alpaca fiber—huacaya and suri. Selling various blends Gaze Acres Alpacas–Brunswick Corriedale, Merino, Navajo-Churro, raw fiber, rolags, handspun and machine gazeacresalpacas.com Rambouillet, silk Silky llama roving and show-quality fleeces spun yarn. Available in a variety of colors in colors, white, and black. Pure llama yarn [email protected] Beautiful coated fleeces in natural colors (whites, browns, grays, and blacks). (207) 729-9807 sheared and skirted by a handspinner. and unique handspun blends of llama, wool, mohair, angora, silk. Kentucky Alpaca Natural dye extracts, wool and silk rovings, Fine white Huacaya Alpacas are our sheepskins, and unbridled enthusiasm for Breezy Manor Textiles & Alpacas of the Covenant Inc./ specialty! Raw fleece, beautifully processed sheep! Things–Mooresville All Things Alpaca LLC–Cold roving, 100% alpaca yarn, alpaca/bamboo www.breezymanor.com Spring and alpaca/silk blend yarns ready to ship. [email protected] www.allthingsalpacaonline.com (317) 260-0571 [email protected] Underhill Fibers–Gorham Angora, mohair, Bluefaced Leicester (859) 781-7741 www.underhillfiber.com Handspun yarns, rovings, handwoven, [email protected] knitted textiles from contented BLF, Border (207) 892-2617 Leicester, Romney sheep; Angora bunnies; Various wools, Romney, angora, pygora, and goats. Classes. Open Thu, Sun. pycazz Special Advertising Section Natural Fiber Farm-raised fibers and handspun yarns. Minnesota . Breeding stock and fiber pets as available. A Spin Off Directory! Custom handspinning. Machine knitting GreatWool–Sauk Centre of shawls and scarves. www.greatwool.com Paco-vicuña roving, handpicked, raw fleece, (540) 270-1500 [email protected] sport, fingering- and laceweight yarn is Alpaca, alpaca blends Massachusetts (320) 987-2820 available in white, beige, golden, vicuña, MMA offers for your spinning/felting Rambouillet Alpacas of Springbrook dark vicuña and mahogany shades. pleasure raw fiber and roving—alpaca and Products include hand-dyed and natural alpaca blends (with merino, silk, angora, Farm–Stow fleece, combed top, roving, yarns, and batts. www.springbrookalpacas.com Morning Moon Alpacas– yak and/or cashmere) in natural and Enjoy our blog at greatwool.blogspot.com. Monett hand-dyed colors. [email protected] Wool In Your Hands. Art In Your Life. (978) 897-5969 www.morningmoonalpacas Alpaca Shelley’s Yarns & Fiber Shoppe .com Alpaca fiber from our prized herd. Online –Taylors Falls morningmoonalpacas@gmail store and farm store. Roving, yarn, batting, www.eweyarns.com .com felt. All natural or dyed. Also Holiday [email protected] Gifts—ALL ALPACA. (651) 465-6588 Various wools, Bluefaced Leicester, Merino, Michigan Romney, Shetland, alpaca, mohair Circle R Ranch Alpacas Offering beautiful natural fiber yarns –Caledonia and fabulous fibers for spinning and www.circleralpacas.com needlefelting—including rovings, blending [email protected] fibers, hand-dyed locks and even wool from (616) 891-5701 local farms! Alpaca Missouri Breeding beautiful huacaya alpacas for you, the fiber artist. We offer yarn from Hickory Ridge Farms our animals as well as roving. Let your Paco-Vicuñas–Braymer creative side take flight. www.pacovicunahrf.com [email protected] (660) 645-2825 Paco-vicuña Joanna Gleason, Gleason's Fine Woolies

Montana raw, roving, and various-weight yarn. Bluefaced Leicester, Merino, cashmere, silk 2 JP Ranch–Mountain Home Online store also offers finished alpaca LavenderSheep handpaints roving and yarn www.2jpranch.com Serenity Sheep Farm Stay products. inspired by living in the Columbia River [email protected] –Belgrade Gorge. Her home in Oregon is surrounded (775) 750-2433 www.serenitysheepfarmstay The Tail Spinner–Richlands www.tail-spinner.com by brilliant colors all year-round. Merino, Rambouillet, angora, mohair .com Naturally colored Angora goats, dark red/ [email protected] [email protected] Stonehaven Farm–Halfway (910) 324-6166 www.stonehavenfarm.com browns, blacks, and patterns. Fine wool Romney, Shetland colored sheep Merino/Rambouillet cross. Stay a night or a week in our antique Merino, Corriedale, silk, cotton, alpaca, [email protected] angora, bison (541) 742-5548 Fleeces, dyed mohair, wool and mohair sheepherder’s wagons. Spin amongst the roving. Breeding stock available. sheep in the field and knit against the Specialty batts, dyed roving, seasonal fleeces, Shetland Big Sky! and other wools and rovings are also Exquisite fleeces and roving sold to Fancy Fibers–Farmersville available, along with many other fibers. handspinners across the country. www.fancyfibers.com New Hampshire Specializing in soft lustrous wool in [email protected] Ohio Snowfield Alpacas LLC–Enfield myriad natural colors and patterns. Selected (972) 839-8604 www.snowfieldalpacas.com Kirkwood Farm–Mt. Eaton breeding stock available. Shetland, alpaca, angora, mohair, silk, www.kirkwoodfarm.com cashgora [email protected] South Carolina (603) 632-7274 [email protected] Shop our farm store and meet the animals Alpaca (330) 359-5515 Sea AyreTM Suris LLC–Cameron that provide your fiber while you’re here! Award-winning huacaya alpacas and Border Leicester, Leicester Longwool, www.seaayresuris.com We also proudly sell the Texas-made Fairy luxurious fiber. Skirted fleece, roving, and Romney, alpaca, llama, Romney/alpaca, [email protected] Thimble spinning wheel. Romney/mohair Alpaca, llama yarn available in natural colors from white Utah to true black and gray. Finest quality raw wool and roving Suri Alpaca—“Rarest of Breeds, Ultimate in white and natural colored, blends, Natural Fiber.” We offer high-quality raw Spinderella’s Creations Painted Shadow Farm–Marlow homespun yarn, Christmas decorations, and suri fleece, rovings, yarn, and felt. Llama Fiber Mill–Salt Lake City www.paintedshadowfarm.com homemade items. Please visit our website. fleece and yarn also available. www.spinderellas.com [email protected] [email protected] (603) 446-3944 Tennessee (801) 668-0563 Mohair, pygora Various wools Natural-colored (black, white, reds, Smoky Mountain Spinnery –Gatlinburg We offer Artistic Hand-Dyed and and browns) and dyed mohair fleece, Homespun, Swizzlestix yarns, specialty roving, and yarn. Merino/Mohair and www.smokymountainspinnery .com fibers called Thrums, as well as process Merino/Mohair/Alpaca roving blends. your own fibers for you. Pygora Cloud. [email protected] (865) 436-9080 Long Ridge Farm Various wools, camelid, cashmere, silk, Vermont –Westmoreland Soysilk, buffalo, bamboo Centre Artisans–East www.longridgefarm.com Come relax and shop in the comfortable Dummerston [email protected] surroundings of Smoky Mountain Spinnery. www.centreartisans.com (603) 313-8393 Everything for spinning, weaving, knitting, [email protected] CVM/Romeldale, alpaca, cotton, crochet, needlefelting, as well as antiques (802) 254-9792 mohair, silk and gifts. Border Leicester, Corriedale, Jacob, Romney, CVM/Romeldale sheep, rarest breed in Legacy Acres Mill & More LP Shetland North America today with next-to- Offering spinning and weaving workshops skin softness. Yarns and spinning fibers –Manchester www.legacyacres.com and private lessons, custom processing for in a variety of natural and organically single fleece at a time, local wool roving, dyed hues. Leslie Ordal [email protected] (931) 728-5962 handspun yarn, Ashford and Louet dealer. New York Alpaca Crooked Fence Farm–Putney A full-service mill and more! Raw alpaca www.crookedfencefarm-vt.com Ohio Natural Fiber Network GlimmerGlass Alpacas fiber, crocheted, knitted, or felted items. Let [email protected] –Seville –Fly Creek us turn your fiber into rovings, yarns, or (802) 387-5790 www.ohionaturalfibernetwork www.glimmerglassalpacas.com felted sheets. CVM/Romeldale, Merino, cashmere .com [email protected] Raw fleece, roving, and yarn from our [email protected] (607) 547-5336 Texas Merino and rare CVM/Romeldale sheep. (330) 410-4680 Alpaca Fine wool in natural colors. Stock available (440) 829-3644 FiberLady.com–Lewisville Featuring fine suri fiber and suri fiber for breeding or handspinner’s flock. blends. Raw fiber, carded batts and roving Bluefaced Leicester, CVM/Romeldale, www.fiberlady.com available in natural colors, including true Navajo-Churro, Shetland, alpaca, angora, [email protected] Northeast Fiber Arts Center black. Samples upon request. llama, mohair, pygora (214) 803-1243 –Williston ONFN is an organization of fiber producers Corriedale, Merino, alpaca, bamboo, cotton, www.northeastfiberarts.com North Carolina and artists dedicated to developing flax, hemp [email protected] awareness of the diversity and beauty of Fiberlady offers handpainted fibers in (802) 288-8081 Empty Pockets Alpaca Farm bamboo, hemp, flax, bamboo/wool, and –Climax Ohio farm yarns and fleeces. Various wools, alpaca, angora, buffalo, bamboo/alpaca blends. Custom color orders cashmere, mohair, pygora, silk, yak www.emptypocketsalpacas.com accepted. [email protected] Oregon Northeast Fiber Arts offers a range of (336) 674-3334 LavenderSheep–Cascade Locks natural fibers for spinning and felting: from Alpaca www.lavendersheep.com exotic to sublime, including some local Empty Pockets offers award-winning fleece, [email protected] Vermont wools. We sell spinning wheels, yarn and animals for sale. Fiber available (541) 392-1828 carding equipment, and felting tools and accessories.

Virginia ME2 Custom Fiber Processing Mielke’s Fiber Arts LLC Farm–Colville –Rudolph Mangham Manor Wool & www.me2farm.com www.mielkesfiberarts.com Mohair Farm–Charlottesville [email protected] [email protected] www.wool.us (509) 684-5623 (715) 435-4494 [email protected] CVM/Romeldale, Montadale, alpaca, Various wools, bamboo, camel, cotton, flax, (434) 973-2222 cashmere hemp, silk Various wools, alpaca, bamboo, cashmere, Our farm is located in NE Washington, Shop our online store for a wide selection flax, llama, mohair, silk where we own and operate a custom fiber- of fibers, including our famous “Bag of We have a natural-colored flock of 500 processing business and raise fiber animals. Candy”—a Corriedale roving sampler of ewes with every shade of gray, brown, black, We enjoy blending for your special needs. 50 colors for $26! and ivory. We breed for fine colored wool fleeces and mohair ringlets. Fiber Alley at Chelsea Wyoming Farms–Renton Solitude Wool–Round Hill www.thealpacaplace.com The Sheep Shed Studio www.solitudewool.com [email protected] –Encampment [email protected] (425) 413-3900 www.thesheepshedstudio.com (703) 779-0894 Alpaca [email protected] Romney, Merino, Corriedale, Karakul, Beautiful alpaca fiber in the raw, roving, or (307) 327-5568 Shropshire, Icelandic, Tunis batts. Also available are bumps for weaving Various wools, Cotswold, mohair Breed-specific yarns and spinning fibers or rug making. Both suri and huacaya. We offer wool, mohair, wool-blend, and hand-selected from small flocks in the superwash rovings as well as specially dyed Chesapeake Watershed. Hand-dyed and Paradise Fibers–Spokane fibers. Fun colors in my own particular natural colors. Also Targhee, Coopworth, www.paradisefibers.net style of dyeing. Clun Forest, Dorset. [email protected] (888) 320-7746 International Fleeces–Laramie Merino, Bluefaced Leicester, hemp, silk, www.internationalfleeces.com organic cotton, buffalo, yak tsommer@internationalfleeces Our fibers come ready to spin into yarn. We .com have hundreds of natural fibers and spinning (307) 742-3140 wheels, fast and free shipping on large orders Various wools, various fibers, Stansborough over $100. Grey Importer and purveyor of quality fibers RowanTree Woolery–Yakima from around the world for handspinning www.rowantreewoolery.com enthusiasts. Full-service spinning and [email protected] weaving shop. Your source for unique (509) 388-5619 supplies. Bobbi Daniels, Raven Frog Fibers Various wools, alpaca, bamboo, angora, camel, silk, yak, Soysilk The Fiber House–Sheridan Distributor of Majacraft, Louet, Baynes www.thefiberhouse.com Washington wheels/accessories, Howard Brush, [email protected] Foxglove Fiberarts Supply Louet drumcarders. Lots of color! (307) 673-0383 –Bainbridge Island Natural animal/plant fibers and blends. Various wools, alpaca Canada - Ontario www.foxglovefiber.com Commercial and handspun yarn! The Fiber House is proud to offer local Gemini Fibres–Mt. Albert [email protected] Wyoming-produced wool and alpaca roving www.geminifibres.com (206) 780-2747 Wisconsin and yarns from BobCat Ranch Alpacas and [email protected] Corriedale, Merino, silk, English Leicester, Whisper Meadows Alpacas Mountain Meadow Wool Mill. (800) 564-9665 alpaca, camel, cashmere –De Pere Canada - British Various wools, alpaca, camel, silk, cotton, Foxglove Fiberarts Supply offers the full line www.alpacanation.com/ flax, bamboo of Ashford dyed and natural fibers as well as whispermeadows.asp Columbia Supplying all your fiber-arts needs for over scrumptious silks and exotics. [email protected] SweetGeorgia Yarns–Vancouver 30 years. The home of Forrester spindles— Crystal Creek Fibers–Carson mail@mysticspringsranch www.sweetgeorgiayarns.com we stock a wide range of styles. Mail order www.crystalcreekfibers.etsy.com (920) 639-8464 [email protected] available. (715) 460-1653 (604) 569-6811 [email protected] United Kingdom (503) 380-0140 Alpaca Bluefaced Leicester, Merino, Wensleydale, Wool, silk, alpaca, mohair, dog/cat Soft as a whisper! Suri fleece, rovings, yarn, alpaca, bamboo, cashmere, silk The Handweavers Studio & undercoat, flax, cotton, angora clothing, accessories. Championship luster, Stunningly saturated colors and luxurious Gallery–London Fibers from around the world and back. fineness, softness. Professionally skirted, natural fiber. We supply exquisite hand- www.handweavers.co.uk Colorwayz batts, exotic blended batts, sorted. Natural colors. Handknit, crocheted, dyed spinning fiber blends in over 45 [email protected] custom alpaca carding, Kromski spinning woven items, custom orders. inspired colorways. Available online and at +44 (0) 20 7272 1891 wheels, fiber tools, Howard Brush carders; fine retailers. Merino, Shetland, alpaca, bamboo, camel, visitors welcome. silk, Tencel A huge range of fibers from abaca to yak, Merino tops in 100+ colors, wheels, spindles, carders, lazy kates, and more.