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Yarns & Fibers to Make Your Spirit Sing
supplying yarn and fiber enthusiasts since 2003

Rare, Endangered and Unusual Breed Spinning Fibers
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P.O. Box 197, Sperryville, Virginia 22740-0197 ~ 703-309-3199 ~ info(at)spirit-trail(dot)net

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May 8, 2008:

I am currently in the midst of travel for sheep & wool festivals and have not had a chance to update the pages on this website. Please be aware that some of the yarns and fibers currently on the site may already be sold. If you place an order for yarn or fiber, I will return home on May 13 and will be doing inventory at that time. If the item you've purchased is already sold, I will send you a refund immediately. If it is still available, it will be shipped out between May 15-17. Thank you for your understanding and patience during this busy time of year!

Join us at the New Hampshire Sheep & Wool Festival for some fun knitting and spinning contests at 11:00 am and 3:00 pm both Saturday and Sunday ~ prizes have been donated by Carolina Homespun, Still River Mill and Spirit Trail Fiberworks!

We are working hard to get ready for the New Hampshire Sheep & Wool Festival the second weekend of May, and will have website updates completed thereafter. Our apologies that our website will not be updated with new merchandise until our spring shows. Look here for an announcement, or sign up on our email announcement list at left.

We hope to see you at New Hampshire!

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I have learned this, at least, by experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours ... If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundation under them.

Henry David Thoreau

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THE SPIRIT TRAIL

The basis of the Weavers' Pathway concept is the traditional Navaho fear of being enclosed on all sides with no way of escape . . . the fear of enclosure is extended to weaving when a border surrounds the design.

In Navaho, two words are employed to indicate the consequences of weaving a rug with an enclosed border. They are adii je tlo, "too much weaving," a concept involving sickness of body, and adaage de tlo, "close yourself in," which can be considered a sickness of mind or spirit . . .

And so a complex concept emerges from a seemingly simple line - a concept involving the weaver's fear that in channeling all her energies and mental resources into a rug with an enclosing border, she may encircle and thereby entrap her spirit, mind, energies and design.

In jeopardy are future loom experiences: the continuous use of design, the well being of weaving muscles, and of paramount concern, her vision and sanity.

The moment of Pathway is the moment of liberation, of peace, of serenity - and a wish for the future: may the next weaving be even better.

Noel Bennett, "The Weaver's Pathway: A Clarification of the 'Spirit Trail' in Navaho Weaving," Northland Press, 1987.

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Listen, are you breathing just a little, and calling it a life?

Mary Oliver

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