Yarns by  Spirit-Trail Fiberworks
 


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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Yarns by  Spirit-Trail Fiberworks
P.O. Box 197, Sperryville, Virginia 22740-0197 ~ 703-309-3199 ~ info(at)spirit-trail(dot)net


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August 8, 2008:

All pages are now up to date! There are alot of deals right now, too, as I clear out current yarns and fibers to make way for the new fall yarns and fibers ~check out the Sale Yarns page, but there are also sale items throughout the site. Check out the new Combed Top page, too. Select rovings are now on sale as well, which can be found on the Rovings pages!

Please Note: At this point in time, some items are selling out faster than I can update the site, so if you purchase an item and it turns out to already be sold, I will refund your purchase for the sold out item.

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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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