So many of the items around us every day are the end result of such complicated production chains that they might as well be produced by Tolkienesque wizards or Star Trek replicators. It's easy to ...

Elk Mountain Equine Sanctuary presented a spinning wheel demonstration Friday for the senior clients at Telespond Senior Services in Scranton. The sanctuary brought three lambs to the center to show ...

Like knitting and crocheting, spinning – the process of twisting fibers together to make yarn – is enjoying a comeback. Textile artists want “to control the front end of their yarn,” says Sarah ...

While knitting and crocheting remain popular past-times on the Island there aren’t too many people who hand spin their own wool into yarn to do it. Philanthropist lawyer Michelle St. Jane is the ...

4-H volunteer Lindsay McHugh, right, assists Aileen Gravot, 12, and her mom Christine make a macrame bracelet during a 4-H Yarn Club meeting, in Pitman, Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2013. Linda McHugh’s Pitman ...