Fibre Week: Short Courses in Fibre Technology: Continuing Education: Olds College

Fibre Week 2010 Sponsors

Thanks to our generous sponsors for helping to make Fibre Week possible!

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Shuttleworks is a fully stocked fiber arts retail store carrying yarn, fiber and fabric (100% wool, linen and silk); plus equipment, accessories and books for weaving, spinning, fiber preparation, dyeing, knitting, crochet, needle and wet felting, rug hooking, rug braiding, traditional Japanese braiding, and other fiber arts. Shuttleworks has the most diverse in-store fiber arts inventory in Canada.

For spinners: We carry a wide range of products, including fibers from wool to exotics; spinning wheels from Lendrum, Schacht, Ashford, Majacraft, Louet and Ertoel; spindles (top and bottom whorl as well as Turkish, Russian and Tibetan); hand cards, drum carders, combs and hackles; ball winders, niddy-noddies and swifts; and dyes in acid, MX and natural.

For weavers: Shuttleworks stocks 4 and 8-shaft table looms, rigid heddle looms, tapestry looms and floor looms, from Leclerc, Schacht, Ashford, Mirrix and Louet, as well as reeds, bobbin winders, shuttles, raddles, warping boards and mills, heddles (wire, inserted eye, flat steel and Texsolv) and a full range of other accessories. We also stock silk, hemp, cotton, linen and wool yarns in put-ups from half-pound tubes to one-pound cones. And a whole lot more.