Sites I recommend

Ashfords Home of the world famous spinning wheels and looms

Blackhills New Zealand wool….naturally

Creative Fibre The New Zealand Spinning, Weaving & Woolcrafts Society Inc

Fiber Trends Hand Knit Designs

Hamish Black Gotland Beautiful Gotland Pelt fleeces and sheep

Shona Schofield Outstanding felt and fibre artist

Southern Alpacas Top Genetics Top service Top Studs

Warwickz Farm Alpaca and rare breeds farmstay

The joy and satisfaction of spinning

You get an incredible sense of achievement when you turn raw wool into a finished product. A pair of booties, or mittens or a warm wool cap. Not everyone can spin. It takes patience, particularly when you are learning and have to get used to tensioning the wheel correctly. But when you know how to spin, and you take raw wool and move it through the processes until it is finished garment, you experience one of the few truly creative, self-reliant moments the modern consumer-driven Western world can give you.