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By Hand

Vol 8, Num 12 :: 2009.06.05 — 2009.06.19

 
 

Conversation: “By Hand”

by The *cino Community

Welcome to the “By Hand” conversation.  Respond to this issue using the comments feature below.  Or if you have a longer response to the current issue that you’d like to submit for consideration as an article, please feel free to send it my way by the Tuesday after the issue is published.

-k. vg-r

  • What do you choose to do by hand or the old-fashioned way, even when there’s a faster alternative?  Why?
  • Do you sense a trend for returning to doing things by hand?  Is the old-fashioned way too romanticized?

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denise
Jun 18 2009
10:34 PM

I spin yarn. I hoped to write something about it, but I’m short on time. I am a student of writing, and the more I write, the more I need to let strands of fiber slip through my hands at just the right pace, sitting at the beautiful spinning wheel. It SEEMS practical, until I confess I never really knit up much of it— I’m learning to weave, since weaving uses yarn more efficiently, and scarves offer a good home to handspun yarn.

The beauty of a community like this? I don’t need to find a reason for spinning yarn. My hands need this experience of beauty.

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