Le chanvre est cultivé depuis des millénaires et on retrouve des traces de son utilisation dans le textile (habillement et autres étoffes) il y a plus de 6000 ans en Asie centrale. Le chanvre est utilisé comme le lin; d’ailleurs...
Tisser avec du lin semble freiner certains tisserands. On entend souvent qu’il est difficile à tisser, qu’avec ce fil, il est difficile d’obtenir de belles lisières. Pourtant le lin présente un certain intérêt. Avant de tisser avec du lin, assurez-vous de...
Le lin est une des fibres les plus écologiques, nous en parlons dans l’article Le lin, la fibre au naturel ! Il est cultivé tant pour sa tige, dont les fibres sont filées, que pour sa graine, même si ce...
This is probably the most environmentally friendly fibre: it requires little fertilizer and pesticides and processing processes have evolved a lot. It is produced mainly in Western Europe and especially in France and Belgium, where the climate is very favourable....
Lunatic Fringe Yarns offers some suggestions on how to maintain the hand-woven fabrics you'll create from Tubular Spectrum mercerized cotton yarns™. These threads are very strong and their color is unalterable: the fabric you are going to create should therefore...
Lunatic Fringe Yarns was born to meet the weavers of a guild who wanted to weave a color chart. Dyers worked on the stain. But once, the first threads tinted and woven, the demand doubled. The Tubular Spectrum ™ From...
Let's get this straight, "Superwash" is actually a term that comes from English, and it is also the term recommended by Termium - one of the references in translation - in French; it corresponds to the trade name of I.W.S...
You've probably heard that name? But where does it come from? What are the characteristics of this wool? Why do we use it? These are all questions that we will try to answer. Above all, this wool takes its...
