Quest for Fiber

Quest for Fiber: Serendipity Too Blatant to Ignore

Quest for Fiber:Serendipity Too Blatant to Ignore There are no such things as coincidences. This is a lesson I am ...

Quest for Fiber: A New Tradition in Herding Sheep

Quest for Fiber: A New Tradition in Herding Sheep I guess this falls into the "Quest for Fiber" category...I was ...

Quest for Fiber: The New Lanark Cotton Mill

Quest for Fiber:The New Lanark Cotton MillI am backing up a bit to write about some of the spectacular places ...

Quest for Fiber: Picky about my Hentilagets on Bressay

Quest for Fiber: Picky about my Hentilagets on BressayI had a day on Tuesday so overwhelmingly wonderful, that I had ...

Quest for Fiber: Chinchero Textiles

Quest for Fiber: Chinchero TextilesI had been wanting to visit the Centro de Textiles in Chinchero for quite a while ...

Quest for Fiber: Colores! Colores!

Quest for Fiber: Colores! Colores!Since I arrived in Calca, I have been trying to find a natural dyeing workshop to ...

Quest for Fiber: Revisiting Arequipa’s Fiber Mills

Quest for Fiber: Revisting Arequipa's Fiber Mills Last year, when I was in Arequipa, I wrote about my disappointment in ...

Islas! Islas!*

Islas! Islas!* * Islands! Islands!For the weekend of my 60th birthday (March 22), I decided to take a little tourist ...

Quest for Fiber: Translating Tom Sawyer

Quest for Fiber: Translating Tom Sawyer I made another excursion to the Sunday market in Acora where the Alpaca ladies ...

Quest for Fiber: The Alpaca Ladies of Acora

Quest for Fiber: The Alpaca Ladies of Acora I have not been very successful in my search for raw alpaca ...

Quest for Fiber: Sometimes You Just Have to ASK!

Quest for Fiber: Sometimes You Just Have to Ask! I have been wanting some lana de alpaca (alpaca yarn), but ...

Quest for Fiber: Alpaca and Acrylic and Títeres

Quest for Fiber:Alpaca and Acrylic and TíteresThis post is written especially for my fiber-loving friends. As many of you know, ...

Quest for Fiber: Quechua Weaving

Quest for Fiber—Quechua Weaving I visited Michell’s mill today where they have a museum, Mundo Alpaca, dedicated to alpaca fiber ...