Links
This section provides an ever-expanding list of online resources for all things fiber arts. We continue to add links for fiber art product suppliers, schools that teach classes in fiber arts techniques, organizations (including guilds) that help expand weavers' and spinners' knowledge of the fiber arts, galleries and museums featuring exhibitions on the subject, and fiber artists offering inspirational examples of weaving and spinning.
Local
- At Loose Ends
At Loose Ends is a yarn/supply shop and fiber arts school. Located in the northern Minnesota town of Perham, the shop sells knitting, spinning, weaving, and other fiber arts supplies.
- Blackberry Hills
Jerry and Loretta Pedersen offer fleeces, custom yarns, sheep, angora goats, llamas, and spinning and weaving workshops.
- Blackberry Ridge Woolen Mill
This family-owned spinnery is located in south-central Wisconsin and supplies custom spinning and/or carding of wool in quanitites as little as 20 lbs and up to 2000. Blackberry Ridge also offers knitting supplies and patterns.
- Bluff Country Shetlands
- Color Crossing
Patty Kuebker Johnson's Roberts, Wisconsin shop carries
fine yarn, fibers, supplies and equipment to knit, weave, crochet, spin,
felt, and dye.
- Courtney Woolen Mill
- Creative Fibers
Creative Fibers carries supplies for knitters, spinners, weavers, rug hookers, dyers, and felters. Knitting and weaving classes offered.
- Depth of Field Yarn
This yarn store, located near the U's west bank, sells fine quality natural yarns for knitting and weaving. Knitting and weaving classes are offered.
- Detta's Spindle
Detta offers supplies for spinning, weaving, knitting and felting. This is the area's premier dealer of spinning equipment. Detta does custom spinning of dog hair and will also help you learn to spin it yourself.
- Ellison Sheep Farm
New, used, and antique spinning wheels and looms are for sale along with spinning, weaving, knitting, and felting supplies, carders, and fleece. Classes, demonstrations, and workshops are also offered.
- Great Wool
Great Wool is a family run central Minnesotan farm that raises registered Rambouillet sheep and sells fleece, tops, roving, batts, and handspun yarn.
- Historic Looms of America
Janet Meany maintains the Loom Manual Library, and publishes The Weavers Friend rag
rug newsletter.
- Just 4 Ewe
Located in a quant village of artisans and gift shops in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, Just 4 Ewe offers supplies for spinning, weaving, knitting, and other fiber arts.
- Kimberwood Shetlands
Kim Nikolai offers raw fleece and roving in a variety of natural colors.
- Kitchen Table Software
Sue Farley is the developer of pixeLoom software for editing drafts,
planning projects, and virtual sampling.
- Lou French's Tools for Ply-Splitting
Lou offers handmade gripfid tools for sale in standard and custom sizes and tips on where to purchase a cord making drill attachment.
- Mielke's Fiber Arts
A central Wisconsin source for weaving, spinning, knitting, crocheting, tatting, bobbin lace, felting, dyeing, and locker hooking equipment, books, and supplies.
- Nordic Living
Cathy Mayr provides supplies for weaving, knitting, felting, rosemaling, hardanger, and cooking.
- Nordic Needle
- Silver Creek Cabin
Offers a full line of products for spinning, weaving, knitting, crocheting, felting and dyeing. Also offered are books, magazines, handmade fiber gifts and clothing, and knitting and weaving classes for adults and children.
- Spirit Song Alpacas
These alpacas have won over 80 awards for their fleece, halter, and performance. Handspun yarn from Betty Carlson's flock is available for sale.
- SR Harris Retail and Wholesale Fabric Outlet
SR Harris offers a warehouse full of fabric and notions at low prices. Over 30,000 square feet of fabric piled high.
- St Peter Woolen Mill
This southern Minnesota mill offers custom carding or recarding of wools and acrylics for quilt batting, handspinning, felting, or weaving.
- 3 Kittens Needle Arts
3 Kittens offers over 1000 yarns and threads, classes, books, patterns, fabrics, beads, and much more in their south metro store.
- Watersmeet Farms
This small farm offers fleeces, roving, handspun yarns, angora and mohair fiber, and spinning and felting classes.
- Woolgatherers Fiber Shop
This full service fiber arts shop in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin carries yarn, imported linens, looms, books, and other fiber arts equipment. They are also the manufacturers of the DutchMaster Loom.
- The Yarnery
Located on St Paul's Grand Avenue, The Yarnery carries hundreds of yarns and equipment.
National
- Apple Hollow Fiber Arts
A shop for knitting, spinning, weaving yarn and equipment. Also features a coffee shop.
- ArtEdje Weaving Supplies
Offers a wide variety of quality weaving equipment, including custom-made shuttles of luxury wood.
- Aurora Silk
- AVL Looms
Innovative looms and weaving equipment for the hand weaver.
- Bahr Creek Llamas and Fiber Studio
Everything you need for knitting, weaving, spinning, and needlefelting, including classes.
- Braidershand
Makers of quality Japanese style kumihimo equipment: marudai, takadai,
and tama. Purveyors of books, kumihimo silk, biron, and metallic threads
for braiding.
- Carolina Homespun
- Earth Guild
- Fiber Finds
- Fiberville USA
A virtual fiber "mall" containing links to dozens of online fiber and fiber arts equipment retailers.
- Glimakra Looms and Weaving Equipment
- Habu Textiles Yarn Store
New York city based importers of fine and unusual yarn from Japan, including raw silk, bamboo, and cashmere.
- Halcyon Yarn
- Harrisville Designs
- Hedgehog Handworks
- Interweave Press
Based in Colorado, Interweave Press publishes books and magazines on the fiber arts, including Handwoven and Spin-Off.
- Klotz Country Crafts
- LACIS
- Laurelhurst Fiber Arts Studio and Urban Farm
Tablet weaving and ply-split braiding.
- Morning Star Fiber Mill
This northeastern Ohio mill specializes in custom fiber processing, including washing, carding, spinning, plying, or felting alpaca and other exotic fibers.
- New World Textiles
- Nordic Studio
Nordic Studio offers a wide color selection and variety of Swedish yarns and a weaving school at their home base in Texas.
- Ohio Valley Natural Fibers
One of the largest custom prcessing mills in North America, specializing in processing and blending exotic fibers such as merino, angora, llama, dog, cashmere, and alpaca.
- Sew Shop
- Silk Things
- Spindle and Wheel
A free online magazine devoted to spinning.
- Textile Reproductions
- Treenway Silks
- Unicorn Books and Crafts
- Vav Magazine
A fine European weaving magazine featuring articles on Scandinavian textiles and weaving drafts.
- The Village Spinning and Weaving Shop
- Webs
- Woodland Woolworks
Located in Oregon, Woodland Woolworks offers yarn and supplies to knitters, spinners, and weavers.
- The Woolery
- Yarn Barn of Kansas
Huge retailer of yarn, often offering mill end discounts on special yarns each quarter.
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Local Fiber Arts
National Fiber Arts
- American Sheep Industry Association
- American Tapestry Alliance
- Association of Northwest Weavers' Guilds
- Complex Weavers
- Handweavers Guild of America, Inc.
Founded in 1969 to inspire creativity and encourage excellence in the
fiber arts, the Handweavers Guild of America, Inc., brings together weavers,
spinners, dyers, basketmakers, fiber artists and educators.
- Handweaving.net
- Shop Yarn
This directory offers a complete directory of North American yarn shops and fiber arts guilds.
- Spinning and Weaving Association
Provides a forum for retailers, manufacturers, and suppliers who are dependent on the spinning and weaving market and creates new opportunities through public campaigns like Spinning and Weaving Week.
- Textile Society of America
The Textile Society of America, Inc. provides an international forum
for the exchange and dissemination of information about textiles worldwide,
from artistic, cultural, economic, historic, political, social, and technical
perspectives
- TWIST - Tablet Weavers' International Studies & Techniques
- Weavecast
Guilds
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Local
National
- Cathy Bolding
Jacquard weaving artist
- Archie Brennan and Susan Martin Maffei
Tapestry artists, national workshop leaders
- Stuart Golder
Precious metal weaver, jeweler
- Bonnie Inouye
Handweaver, national workshop leader
- Daryl Lancaster
Handweaver, seamstress, national workshop leader
- Deb Menz
Fiber artist, color expert, national workshop leader
- Paul O'Connor
Handweaver
- Marilou Schultz
Navajo rug weaver
- Robyn Spady
Handweaver, national workshop leader
- Sarah Swett
Tapestry artist
- Bonnie Tarses
Handweaver, national workshop leader
- Barbara J. Walker
Fiber artist, national workshop leader
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Midwest
- Fiber Garden
- Minnetonka Center for the Arts
The Art Center provides affordable
instruction in the visual arts, including the fiber arts.
We offer high quality programming to people of all ages, interests,
abilities, and levels of experience.
- Sievers School of Fiber Arts
Located just off the tip of Wisconsin's "thumb," Sievers is on Washington Island in Lake Michigan. This is a nationally-known school for fiber arts featuring instructors well-known in their disciplines from across the country.
- Split Rock Arts Program
- Vesterheim Folk-Art Education
Located in Iowa's charming bluff country, Vesterheim provides instruction in rosemaling, weaving, woodworking, knifemaking, and other traditional arts with world-renowned instructors.
National
- Allegheny River Textile ARTS Studio
- Elkhorn Mountains Weaving Studio
- Espanola Valley Fiber Arts Center
- Harrisville Designs Knitting and Weaving Center
Workshops provide students the opportunity to study with exceptional instructors in the relaxed atmosphere of a unique 180-year-old textile mill in Harrisville, New Hampshire.
- Haystack Mountain School of Crafts
Fiber arts, woodworking, painting, ceramics, and other topics taught by internationally renowned instructors in the beautiful mountains of Maine.
- Hillcreek Fiber Studio
- John C. Campbell Folk School
The Folk School helps students work towards inner growth and becoming caring community members through hands-on classes in performing arts, agriculture, and crafts (including spinning) rooted in the tradition of Southern Appalachia and other world cultures.
- Taos Art School
- The Mannings
The Mannings offers a complete line of books, patterns, tools, supplies,
equipment, classes and workshops for Weavers, Knitters and Spinners
- Vavstuga Swedish Weaving and Folk Arts
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- American Swedish Institute
A historic museum in Minneapolis, Minnesota designed to celebrate the Swedish culture. Features frequent displays of Swedish fiber arts.
- American Textile History Museum
- The Goldstein Museum of Design
This University of Minnesota museum collects, preserves, documents and exhibits clothing, textiles,
decorative arts and graphic design, with an emphasis on objects of the
late 19th through the early 21st centuries
- MacRostie Art Center
- Minneapolis Institute of Arts
The MIA's textile collection contains 8000 objects from over 70 countries. Several galleries feature rotating fiber arts displays.
- Vesterheim Norwegian-American Museum
Northeast Iowa's famous collection of Norweigan folk art from the past and present, featuring rosemaling, weaving, woodworking, knifemaking, and other traditional arts spread throughout 16 historic buildings.
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