Hand-Spun

Hand-spinning draws, twists, and winds fibres into yarn using a hand-held spindle (in North African tradition, typically a drop spindle, a weighted rotating stick). The result is yarn with slight variations in diameter, twist, and tension along its length. These variations are not defects, they are the material evidence of a hand-made process.

Hand-spun yarn has a different handle, lustre, and tensile character from mill-spun yarn. It tends to have more "liveliness", it holds its shape under pile-knotting differently and reflects light more organically. In the finished rug, you can often feel and see this irregularity as a warmth and depth of surface that mill-spun yarn cannot replicate.