I have been spinning for 55 years and have knitted uncountable numbers of garments, each time I watch your videos I learn something new. Thank you for your infectious passion on the whole fiber craft. On a personal note the colours that you wore on this episode are beautiful on you I think you are a beautiful person inside and out.
I love this video, as a whole and oh how emotional it makes me to see textile traditions from all across the world but when it came to the spindle sizes my mind was blown. I'm an archaeologist. And the implication that the whirl size could be linked to plying instead of yarn thickness is so simple but so brilliant. Definitely going to bring it up in conversations and see if anyone I know wants to follow that thread (pun fully intended) Thank you so much for sharing this and making us aware of it!
The way you talk about the craft, and the importance of heritage and tradition and the way that those things express themselves THROUGH these crafts is always just so beautiful. You are fostering on your channel a curiosity and passion for the craft as well as a respect for the history behind it. You always make such lovely videos, and though I would be more than happy to just watch you sit in silence spinning yarn or weaving or anything else for hours, I absolutely love and appreciate the time and effort you so clearly put into your videos
The story about that little girl learning to spin really touched my heart. Traditions are so important. Not just our cultural traditions, but also the ones we hold in our family. I’d love for my daughter to learn how to spin. I also knit, it’s something I learned from my mother and grandmother. I make mead because my grandmother taught me and she learned from her mother and grandmother. One of my proudest moments is when my daughter made mead for a science project in school. You gave that little girl a wonderful gift. She might learn to spin. She might not. But she has a chance to connect to her culture, her mother and her grandmother.
I gave up on my turkish spindle because I spin rather fine and was always breaking the fiber on it, and now I now what I can use it for - plying! Thank you! You should write that paper!
I so enjoyed your video!! I lived in Peru (Lima and Cuzco) for 18 months when I was a teen and it was life-changing. I’m still in touch with my host family. A treasure. It makes me happy to see how much you appreciated and enjoyed your time there. 🇵🇪. And your Chinchero manta and the runners are gorgeous!!
This video hit so many spots gor me! I desperately want to find a community of textile enthusiasts near me. I'm the only spinner/dyer I know, and my partner just does not get why I enjoy it so much, so having a community of people who are able to appreciate the craft just sounds like a dream!
The floof is aloof... And balance in the universe is restored❤ My sweater is from Bolivia😊 Ty what a great trip Evie! Oh her face when she sees the Whites with spindles too... I've got tears. And then you gave a spindle of yours to the girl? Literal chills i love it so much. Thank you Evie you made my day!!!
LOVED THIS! I’m half Peruvian and I’ve been crocheting on and off for years. Started knitting a year ago and using natural fibers. I cannot wait to go back to Peru and see it with my new fiber eyes. Need to call my aunt to have her send me some fresh Peruvian wool. Thank you for this video, I’m looking at my culture in a new way. I love it. I feel like that girl at the train station with the spindle. Gracias! 😄
I'm supposed to be getting my car emissions checked for registration right now... but I got distracted by Peruvian textiles while knitting a sweater (merino and suri - omg what a combo!). Totally worth it
In Ballarat, Australia, we have the Ballarat Rare Trades Centre! Where you can learn all sorts of crafts like spinning and weaving, as well as woodworking, building stone walls, and blacksmithing! I hope there are many other centres around the world
Please show the other things you bought that's not boring! All the pretty things to admire! What a wonderful video, this is easily my favorite RUclips content of 2024. Very cool!!!
Oh my goodness i have enjoyed this video so much. Thank you for sharing your adventures! Not all of us get to travel but i think you should compile a video diary of spinning weaving traditions from all over the world. Yes we need to keep the traditions alive, we have lost so very much with the industrialization of everything. Even here in the states each region has different traditions. All so very interesting. I have always cherished hand crafted items. And i am really glad to know i am not the only one who loves fiber and textiles and spinning and weaving and all those fuzzy faces! Again thank you for your videos!
Thank you Evie for such an amazingly interesting and beautiful video! I think what you said about it being important to carry the tradition of crafting is so true! I am from Finland and fortunately fiber crafts are very much a tradition that still lives strongly in our society here. You can find good quality wool yarn an other basic crafting supplies in even the smallest of local grocery stores and everyone is taught to knit in school, even if not everyone picks it up as a habit later on. My mom taught me to knit when I was seven and since then I have been knitting my whole life. Lately I've been interested in spinnig yarn, and I did buy a spindle to learn it. I also inherited my grandmother's spinnig wheel when she passed away last winter, but I'm yet to aquire it to my home from my parents' place, and since my mom never learned to spin yarn, I have to learn it myself through RUclips. Thank you for all your interesting and insightful content!
I could have told you they weren't snuggle monkeys. LOL. My herd wants fed, wants treats, and wants left ALONE. LOL. But those eyes and that floof drags us suckers in, and we just want to .... they're so FLUFFY! LOL Looks like you had an amazing time!
so about the bigger spindle being for plying, I just wanted to say I have a set of 3 bulgarian supported spindles, one of which is larger, and in the listing on Etsy when I bought it, it stated that the largest one was a plying spindle. so that's another culture, from another continent, which apparently might have had a similar principle.
This episode is immensely fascinating!! I've found out some of my heritage comes from Peru and as the years go by and I learn more about the country, people and their lives ... it explains a lot! I'm so glad you went and spent so much time learning their ways/techniques. I'll bet they were extra intrigued that you were already an expert spinner/weaver. Thank you so so much for taking this trip and sharing it with us. OH!! And I DO want to see ALLLLLL the knick knacks you bought there !!! I hope they make an appearance in later videos :D I also want to mention that that purple/burgundy sweater is absolutely GORGEOUS on you!!
what a beautiful encounter with the little girl, she will certainly be changed after meeting you. a great trip, thanks for sharing. I love dyeing with plants, all colors are possible
What a wonderful trip! I've been watching you for quite a while, you look so much healthier. I'm glad you and your doc worked together to get you better!❤️❤️
What a wonderful video and thank you so much for taking us on the adventure with you. You looked like you really enjoyed immersing yourself in their fibre culture. Really lovely and informative video.
What a fascinating video! You were so spot on with your thoughts about these traditions. Giving the little girl a spindle may spark a whole new interest in generations to come. Also, love your sense of humor! Thanks for all the hard work you put into sharing with your viewers.
this video has great meaning to me. thank you for the thoughtfulness. my hub and i are relocating to one of three countries in Jan. Peru is one of the three. I’m so encouraged by your video.
I have a theory that Jason and the Argonauts's journey to the underworld was, in fact, a storm driven trip to turtle island. Landing in Mexico or even ecuador, they encountered the people with stone pyramids, jade, priceless vicuna fleeces and lots of gold. They stole a vicuna fleece and this was the golden fleece of the legend. The xoloitzcuintle dogs fit the description of hades dogs too.
Absolutely wonderful vlog. I love thinking about community and crafting. Also was thinking about trying out different plants to see if we can make dyes.
@49:10: It's because acrylic is filled with microplastics, is un-unique, cuts into the local communities economy, enables unfair globalization, isn't handmade, and other reasons too. Love that you went there, learned so much, _and_ had a ball (no pun intended!) 😅
Most of my experience weaving is tablet weaving using what I call my "chair loom" (literally tying the ends of my warp between a pair of wooden chairs about 12ft apart). I agree, setting up the warp on your own is at best tedious, and can be kinda complicated when first learning or making different patterns.
Using a spindle for a microphone was perfect. I thoroughly enjoyed every moment in the video you shared with us. The colours of the natural dyes are stunning and so was the weaving. Please tell me what it was that you ate at the end of the video.
The yarn on your spindle matches your sweater.... Or did you unravel some of your sweater? 😂 This was an incredible video! Thanks for spending 5 weeks in Peru and getting so much info. Also, I have 2 goals from this video, find out how to make a captive head spindle and i realize I want to card weave. Good heavens my poor spouse 🤣
What are the chances?...I just ordered some foreo face masks for my ufo not 10 minutes before watching this video. So lovely to see all the work done in Peru, and while I'm watching, I'm knitting a scarf for my daughter with Drops, brushed Alpaca silk. I love Alpaca. Some day I'd like to go to Peru. Thank you Evie.
Welcome back, Evie. Your time in the Andes seems to agree with you. You look so refreshed and blooming. Thank you for the video. What were you eating at the end of the video?
I have already planned a Peru trip for next year, so I'll take your video as a travel guide! Were there any options to buy fiber or spindles, or was it more focused on selling the textiles?
You might see a pushka for sale here and there but I didn't see any unspun fiber for sale. The handspun yarn only came out after I was specifically asking for it and I'm pretty sure it was eventually intended for someone's weaving project and not a generally available tourist item. That said, ask around and you might find some! Lots of the textiles for sale to the tourists are machine spun and woven with industrial dyes. If you want the handmade stuff, you are better off going to the organizations working directly with the weavers or to the communities themselves. I highly recommend checking out CTTC. They have a shop, museum, and demonstration location in Cusco as well as Chinchero. Have a wonderful trip!
I found this video fascinating. I crochet and knit. I don't spin (yet) or weave, but I still found this very interesting and would love to visit the places you showed on your video.
What a great video. I am glad that your tri😂p to Peru was so fulfilling. A tip for making a skein without a niddy noddy: flip a chair over so that it rests on the edge of the seat and back rest, exposing the four legs, then you yarn around the legs (this works best and f the legs are rather straight). The Folly skirt by Stephanie Earp would really be gorgeous in the coloured yarns that you brought back.
So cool.8 yrs ago wanted natural cheap yarn sogot some local alpaca,made bottom whorl spindles from wooden wheels and dowel,big one for plying. Nice to see what I do is traditional. Have blended and marled alpaca fleece rather than dying. Some friends don't get it, I don't knit for them. Watched while plying wool for socks. Great video
I’m fascinated by textiles and the traditional history before the industrial stages. Thank you for sharing Evie. A old fair isle pattern may suit. A bare dyed yarn maybe a good border yarn.
I went with a local turner and he made me some spindles which aren't amazing for spinning single with but they're great for plying, theyare super heavy
I have only been spinning for a few years. In my early ignorance I bought a very large, bottom whorl spindle. It only made sense to me that the large one was for plying. Maybe I need to try it for thicker yarn😂
The organisation for this trip began this time last year - and fibre friends from this channel were invited along. Unfortunately, the cost is beyond me, as just getting from Australia to South America is wildly expensive. And, at the moment, I need regular medical treatment and would have to try to slot any travel in between treatments.
This was a truely fabulous video! Such great detailed explanations and the photos of all were professional standard. I loved this. Maybe one day, if you keep doing these tours ,I can make it from Australia. Question: I’ve always considered alpaca harder to take up dye. Do the Andean women do something special to make it so vibrant? ie. mordant?
I didn't see or hear of anything different being done to alpaca than the wool. Everything into the same pot with the same mordants and dye stuff. Interesting question though. Beauty of color is the goal, not uniformity so if one was coming out different but they both looked "good" I don't think anyone would bother to adjust things just for the alpaca.
You are looking healthier in every episode! I'm so sorry Peru ruined coffee for you! Also what a beautiful story from the train station! All around an epic experience!
Thank you Evie for sharing with us. I have been waiting for this video since you announced your trip. That looks sooooo fun!!! Did you go to the woven bridge? If so can you post a picture? I thought as someone who LOVES color, Cusco would be heaven for you! I am totally looking forward now to your processing of the VICUNA fibers. Do you need to card or comb it first? Are there guard hairs to remove? Thanks so much again. Your videos and experiences do enrich our lives. I know that sounds cheesy, but it really is true and I want you to know that. Thanks also to your hubby for helping make all this happen. Speaking of him and the coffee...You can buy beans online and have them shipped and oh, I don't know...MAKE IT YOURSELF!!! Don't go to coffee shops. 😅 Think of it s a dye project. Coffee grounds actually is a natural dye...Grandma would dye her doilies in coffee or tea if and when they would ever get a stain on them. The color is a beautiful brown or tan. She'd use the used coffee grounds and or tea bags she saved and dried from when she would make coffee or tea. I use my used coffee and tea grounds in my garden. You can too...and your flax will grow much better! Hugs! 12:11
Tea is a good dye because it contains tannin. I'm surprised that your grandmother was able to get coffee to work as while it is dark it doesn't stick to the fabric (unless you're talking about coffee with milk) the way tea does.
We didn't go to the rope bridge unfortunately. It was an 8 hour bus ride from where we stayed and after all the switchbacks on the mountain roads, we weren't looking forward to more travel time. The coffee I'm missing is the espresso to make a Peruvian Americano, and I don't have a way to make that at home. The search continues...
So, I've never been to Peru, but if you're up for mail order coffee I've been getting mine from a place that does a rotating single source subscription that has absolutely ruined me for coffee from any of my local shops. I mostly wind up with South American coffee bc of my preferred roast
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I have been spinning for 55 years and have knitted uncountable numbers of garments, each time I watch your videos I learn something new. Thank you for your infectious passion on the whole fiber craft. On a personal note the colours that you wore on this episode are beautiful on you I think you are a beautiful person inside and out.
Wow, what an experience! Thanks for sharing. I would be very interested in learning how you planned this trip.
So fantastically said, totally agree
"Just because something isn't unbroken doesn't mean it's unchanged." - Well said. 💯🙂
I love this video, as a whole and oh how emotional it makes me to see textile traditions from all across the world
but when it came to the spindle sizes my mind was blown. I'm an archaeologist. And the implication that the whirl size could be linked to plying instead of yarn thickness is so simple but so brilliant. Definitely going to bring it up in conversations and see if anyone I know wants to follow that thread (pun fully intended)
Thank you so much for sharing this and making us aware of it!
I highly recommend the book “Prehistoric Textiles” by Elizabeth Wayland Barber!
The way you talk about the craft, and the importance of heritage and tradition and the way that those things express themselves THROUGH these crafts is always just so beautiful. You are fostering on your channel a curiosity and passion for the craft as well as a respect for the history behind it.
You always make such lovely videos, and though I would be more than happy to just watch you sit in silence spinning yarn or weaving or anything else for hours, I absolutely love and appreciate the time and effort you so clearly put into your videos
Crafts (and other skills) will only continue if they are learned by younger people.
The story about that little girl learning to spin really touched my heart. Traditions are so important. Not just our cultural traditions, but also the ones we hold in our family. I’d love for my daughter to learn how to spin. I also knit, it’s something I learned from my mother and grandmother. I make mead because my grandmother taught me and she learned from her mother and grandmother. One of my proudest moments is when my daughter made mead for a science project in school.
You gave that little girl a wonderful gift. She might learn to spin. She might not. But she has a chance to connect to her culture, her mother and her grandmother.
22:00 True
I gave up on my turkish spindle because I spin rather fine and was always breaking the fiber on it, and now I now what I can use it for - plying! Thank you! You should write that paper!
I so enjoyed your video!! I lived in Peru (Lima and Cuzco) for 18 months when I was a teen and it was life-changing. I’m still in touch with my host family. A treasure. It makes me happy to see how much you appreciated and enjoyed your time there. 🇵🇪. And your Chinchero manta and the runners are gorgeous!!
This video hit so many spots gor me! I desperately want to find a community of textile enthusiasts near me. I'm the only spinner/dyer I know, and my partner just does not get why I enjoy it so much, so having a community of people who are able to appreciate the craft just sounds like a dream!
I was 7 minutes into the video before I realized why you kept holding the spindle 😂
You know they are expert dyers when they are using red color, white shirts, and NO APRONS!! 😮
The floof is aloof... And balance in the universe is restored❤
My sweater is from Bolivia😊
Ty what a great trip Evie!
Oh her face when she sees the Whites with spindles too... I've got tears. And then you gave a spindle of yours to the girl? Literal chills i love it so much.
Thank you Evie you made my day!!!
LOVED THIS! I’m half Peruvian and I’ve been crocheting on and off for years. Started knitting a year ago and using natural fibers. I cannot wait to go back to Peru and see it with my new fiber eyes.
Need to call my aunt to have her send me some fresh Peruvian wool.
Thank you for this video, I’m looking at my culture in a new way. I love it. I feel like that girl at the train station with the spindle. Gracias! 😄
Looks like this was the trip of a lifetime. Really interesting! Thank you for sharing your adventure.
I just loved this video! Amazing amount of information- loved every moment!
I visited Peru in May and saw many local people spinning it's so cool that made me want to learn how to spin.
I'm supposed to be getting my car emissions checked for registration right now... but I got distracted by Peruvian textiles while knitting a sweater (merino and suri - omg what a combo!). Totally worth it
In Ballarat, Australia, we have the Ballarat Rare Trades Centre! Where you can learn all sorts of crafts like spinning and weaving, as well as woodworking, building stone walls, and blacksmithing!
I hope there are many other centres around the world
This is so cool! I'm so happy you got to do this
Thanks for sharing this with us ❤❤❤
Can you share resources for courses you took and organizations you met? Would love to make a similar trip one day!
That was unbelievably spectacular!! OMGoodness!!!❤❤❤
Wonderful, fascinating. Marvelous! Thank you!
Please show the other things you bought that's not boring! All the pretty things to admire!
What a wonderful video, this is easily my favorite RUclips content of 2024. Very cool!!!
THIS WAS THE COOLEST VIDEO! Thank you for sharing it all😊
Oh my goodness i have enjoyed this video so much. Thank you for sharing your adventures! Not all of us get to travel but i think you should compile a video diary of spinning weaving traditions from all over the world. Yes we need to keep the traditions alive, we have lost so very much with the industrialization of everything. Even here in the states each region has different traditions. All so very interesting. I have always cherished hand crafted items. And i am really glad to know i am not the only one who loves fiber and textiles and spinning and weaving and all those fuzzy faces! Again thank you for your videos!
What’s brilliant video, thank you so much
Thank you Evie for such an amazingly interesting and beautiful video! I think what you said about it being important to carry the tradition of crafting is so true! I am from Finland and fortunately fiber crafts are very much a tradition that still lives strongly in our society here. You can find good quality wool yarn an other basic crafting supplies in even the smallest of local grocery stores and everyone is taught to knit in school, even if not everyone picks it up as a habit later on. My mom taught me to knit when I was seven and since then I have been knitting my whole life. Lately I've been interested in spinnig yarn, and I did buy a spindle to learn it. I also inherited my grandmother's spinnig wheel when she passed away last winter, but I'm yet to aquire it to my home from my parents' place, and since my mom never learned to spin yarn, I have to learn it myself through RUclips. Thank you for all your interesting and insightful content!
What a nice nice episode. I just love the way you put so so much information info this, Into all of what you do. Thanks very much.
I could have told you they weren't snuggle monkeys. LOL. My herd wants fed, wants treats, and wants left ALONE. LOL. But those eyes and that floof drags us suckers in, and we just want to .... they're so FLUFFY! LOL Looks like you had an amazing time!
👍👍 trip sounds amazing, train station story is really beautiful and llamagurumi is just darling 😄👌
So fascinating! Thank you for sharing. ❤
What a fantastic experience! Thank you for taking us along & sharing your impressions!
so about the bigger spindle being for plying, I just wanted to say I have a set of 3 bulgarian supported spindles, one of which is larger, and in the listing on Etsy when I bought it, it stated that the largest one was a plying spindle. so that's another culture, from another continent, which apparently might have had a similar principle.
I think you are right. I have some antique Bulgarian spindles too and the larger ones are certainly more useful for plying!
Amazing video. Thank you ❤️
Looks like you had an awesome experience! Seems like there's no end to finding new things to learn! 😊
Thanks so much for sharing your stories and footage! What an incredible experience.
I’m obsessed with this video!! This is such an amazing experience and I am super jealous!🥰
Very interesting video. Thank you !
This episode is immensely fascinating!! I've found out some of my heritage comes from Peru and as the years go by and I learn more about the country, people and their lives ... it explains a lot! I'm so glad you went and spent so much time learning their ways/techniques. I'll bet they were extra intrigued that you were already an expert spinner/weaver. Thank you so so much for taking this trip and sharing it with us. OH!! And I DO want to see ALLLLLL the knick knacks you bought there !!! I hope they make an appearance in later videos :D I also want to mention that that purple/burgundy sweater is absolutely GORGEOUS on you!!
So excited to see your video! Abby Franqmont's work is amazing. What a wonderful experience. Thank you for sharing.
Wow, this was wonderful. Thank you for sharing your amazing trip with us. Happy creating 💚🧶💚
what a beautiful encounter with the little girl, she will certainly be changed after meeting you. a great trip, thanks for sharing. I love dyeing with plants, all colors are possible
That was really cool! Thanks so much for sharing. ❤️
What a wonderful trip! I've been watching you for quite a while, you look so much healthier. I'm glad you and your doc worked together to get you better!❤️❤️
Yesterday I watched the episode with Sylvester and Benny at the warehouse hunting mice. “…and call them George” had me rolling 😂
Thank you for sharing your amazing trip with us! It's going on my bucket list for sure! 😍
I accept your theory of alpacas being too powerfull if they were also snuggleable. This is universal truth now.
What a wonderful video and thank you so much for taking us on the adventure with you. You looked like you really enjoyed immersing yourself in their fibre culture. Really lovely and informative video.
What a fascinating video! You were so spot on with your thoughts about these traditions. Giving the little girl a spindle may spark a whole new interest in generations to come. Also, love your sense of humor! Thanks for all the hard work you put into sharing with your viewers.
Great video. What a wonderful experience for you and very inspiring. Thank you from Scotland.
Great video! Thank you for taking us on your trip
Fantastic video!!
I first learnt how to weave on a back strap loom I made myself. I have a 4 shaft loom now but I’ll always love a back strap loom
this video has great meaning to me. thank you for the thoughtfulness. my hub and i are relocating to one of three countries in Jan. Peru is one of the three. I’m so encouraged by your video.
Finally
I have a theory that Jason and the Argonauts's journey to the underworld was, in fact, a storm driven trip to turtle island. Landing in Mexico or even ecuador, they encountered the people with stone pyramids, jade, priceless vicuna fleeces and lots of gold. They stole a vicuna fleece and this was the golden fleece of the legend. The xoloitzcuintle dogs fit the description of hades dogs too.
Absolutely wonderful vlog. I love thinking about community and crafting. Also was thinking about trying out different plants to see if we can make dyes.
@49:10: It's because acrylic is filled with microplastics, is un-unique, cuts into the local communities economy, enables unfair globalization, isn't handmade, and other reasons too.
Love that you went there, learned so much, _and_ had a ball (no pun intended!) 😅
Most of my experience weaving is tablet weaving using what I call my "chair loom" (literally tying the ends of my warp between a pair of wooden chairs about 12ft apart). I agree, setting up the warp on your own is at best tedious, and can be kinda complicated when first learning or making different patterns.
I have been looking forward to this video forever. I am so excited. Popcorn is ready...yay!
Using a spindle for a microphone was perfect. I thoroughly enjoyed every moment in the video you shared with us. The colours of the natural dyes are stunning and so was the weaving. Please tell me what it was that you ate at the end of the video.
Thank you for this amazing and inspiring adventure, I definitely want to go to Peru
The yarn on your spindle matches your sweater.... Or did you unravel some of your sweater? 😂
This was an incredible video! Thanks for spending 5 weeks in Peru and getting so much info. Also, I have 2 goals from this video, find out how to make a captive head spindle and i realize I want to card weave. Good heavens my poor spouse 🤣
Haha my ultimate threat/d to my husband is „I‘ll rip out the lawn and plant flax instead“
@AB-fr5lg ha ha ha ha ha. I would do that!
Such an amazing experience, Evie! Thanks for sharing it. Happy Thanksgiving! Very grateful for this craft you've helped me learn
They only place in all the Americans that haves and still have a huge rich culture of weaving is Perú and Guatemala. It's amazing
How cool was this video !?!Thank you for documenting and sharing your experience. I love your videos so much!!
TU for a very interesting podcast. I love seeing how other people live❤❤❤
Thank you so much for this amazing video. ❤
What a lovely time!! ❤ thank you for sharing! Such lovely people, culture, and textiles!
What are the chances?...I just ordered some foreo face masks for my ufo not 10 minutes before watching this video. So lovely to see all the work done in Peru, and while I'm watching, I'm knitting a scarf for my daughter with Drops, brushed Alpaca silk. I love Alpaca. Some day I'd like to go to Peru. Thank you Evie.
Welcome back, Evie. Your time in the Andes seems to agree with you. You look so refreshed and blooming. Thank you for the video.
What were you eating at the end of the video?
I wondered if it were guinea pig.
Cuy 🫣
Aldi has Peruvian coffee, in whole beans!
aldi does have some pretty good coffee
Oh my gosh, I loved this video.
I have already planned a Peru trip for next year, so I'll take your video as a travel guide! Were there any options to buy fiber or spindles, or was it more focused on selling the textiles?
You might see a pushka for sale here and there but I didn't see any unspun fiber for sale. The handspun yarn only came out after I was specifically asking for it and I'm pretty sure it was eventually intended for someone's weaving project and not a generally available tourist item. That said, ask around and you might find some! Lots of the textiles for sale to the tourists are machine spun and woven with industrial dyes. If you want the handmade stuff, you are better off going to the organizations working directly with the weavers or to the communities themselves. I highly recommend checking out CTTC. They have a shop, museum, and demonstration location in Cusco as well as Chinchero. Have a wonderful trip!
@@JillianEve Thank you!!!
I found this video fascinating. I crochet and knit. I don't spin (yet) or weave, but I still found this very interesting and would love to visit the places you showed on your video.
What a great video. I am glad that your tri😂p to Peru was so fulfilling. A tip for making a skein without a niddy noddy: flip a chair over so that it rests on the edge of the seat and back rest, exposing the four legs, then you yarn around the legs (this works best and f the legs are rather straight). The Folly skirt by Stephanie Earp would really be gorgeous in the coloured yarns that you brought back.
I remember going to a natural dyeing demonstration on a school trip
Great video. I really enjoyed it. Thank you.
So cool.8 yrs ago wanted natural cheap yarn sogot some local alpaca,made bottom whorl spindles from wooden wheels and dowel,big one for plying. Nice to see what I do is traditional. Have blended and marled alpaca fleece rather than dying. Some friends don't get it, I don't knit for them. Watched while plying wool for socks. Great video
Try beulah coffee it is a small place that roasts coffee and is fair trade soarced. They are out of South Carolina
I’m fascinated by textiles and the traditional history before the industrial stages. Thank you for sharing Evie.
A old fair isle pattern may suit. A bare dyed yarn maybe a good border yarn.
I was so curious about how this trip went, thanks for sharing! Any chance you might plan another trip like this again in the future?
I'll call alpacas aloof floofs from now on 😂 Love this video and your humor ❤
Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family 😊😊😊❤❤❤❤❤❤
Thank you so much for sharing this trip and video 📹. Great job 👏 👍. I love ❤️ to 👀 this.
I went with a local turner and he made me some spindles which aren't amazing for spinning single with but they're great for plying, theyare super heavy
I am crazy about alpaca's and llama's! And Ì've never met one of either that liked me.😅
I have only been spinning for a few years. In my early ignorance I bought a very large, bottom whorl spindle. It only made sense to me that the large one was for plying. Maybe I need to try it for thicker yarn😂
delightful. thank you so much❤
It wouldn’t have been a bore - textiles is my obsession!
You look soooo good! (Hmmm. 5 weeks in Peru per year??). Great video. Thank you for taking the time.
I just love this episode! You should put a tour together for fiber friends in your channel. I’d love to go!
The organisation for this trip began this time last year - and fibre friends from this channel were invited along. Unfortunately, the cost is beyond me, as just getting from Australia to South America is wildly expensive. And, at the moment, I need regular medical treatment and would have to try to slot any travel in between treatments.
I enjoyed seeing your mic attached to your spindle as a microphone!!!
Agree with the statement on alpacas!! 😂 they'd be too powerful! Thanks for this interesting documentary!
What a magnificent trip! If you're planning another trip down, I definitely would consider joining your group. What were you tasting near the end?
I suspect it was guinea pig.
Cuy 🫣
Yes I love peruvian coffee
This was a truely fabulous video! Such great detailed explanations and the photos of all were professional standard. I loved this. Maybe one day, if you keep doing these tours ,I can make it from Australia.
Question: I’ve always considered alpaca harder to take up dye. Do the Andean women do something special to make it so vibrant? ie. mordant?
I didn't see or hear of anything different being done to alpaca than the wool. Everything into the same pot with the same mordants and dye stuff. Interesting question though. Beauty of color is the goal, not uniformity so if one was coming out different but they both looked "good" I don't think anyone would bother to adjust things just for the alpaca.
Thank you
You are looking healthier in every episode! I'm so sorry Peru ruined coffee for you!
Also what a beautiful story from the train station! All around an epic experience!
Thank you Evie for sharing with us. I have been waiting for this video since you announced your trip. That looks sooooo fun!!!
Did you go to the woven bridge? If so can you post a picture?
I thought as someone who LOVES color, Cusco would be heaven for you!
I am totally looking forward now to your processing of the VICUNA fibers. Do you need to card or comb it first? Are there guard hairs to remove?
Thanks so much again. Your videos and experiences do enrich our lives. I know that sounds cheesy, but it really is true and I want you to know that. Thanks also to your hubby for helping make all this happen.
Speaking of him and the coffee...You can buy beans online and have them shipped and oh, I don't know...MAKE IT YOURSELF!!! Don't go to coffee shops. 😅 Think of it s a dye project. Coffee grounds actually is a natural dye...Grandma would dye her doilies in coffee or tea if and when they would ever get a stain on them. The color is a beautiful brown or tan. She'd use the used coffee grounds and or tea bags she saved and dried from when she would make coffee or tea.
I use my used coffee and tea grounds in my garden. You can too...and your flax will grow much better!
Hugs! 12:11
Tea is a good dye because it contains tannin. I'm surprised that your grandmother was able to get coffee to work as while it is dark it doesn't stick to the fabric (unless you're talking about coffee with milk) the way tea does.
@resourcedragon I wish she was still around for me to ask.
We didn't go to the rope bridge unfortunately. It was an 8 hour bus ride from where we stayed and after all the switchbacks on the mountain roads, we weren't looking forward to more travel time. The coffee I'm missing is the espresso to make a Peruvian Americano, and I don't have a way to make that at home. The search continues...
So, I've never been to Peru, but if you're up for mail order coffee I've been getting mine from a place that does a rotating single source subscription that has absolutely ruined me for coffee from any of my local shops. I mostly wind up with South American coffee bc of my preferred roast