📚 Spinning

Fiber into yarn: the drop spindle and the wheel, and the slow craft revival that took them up again.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject spinning in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Electrospinning	Andreas Greiner	2012	8
	Your handspinning	Elsie G. Davenport	1953	6
	Spun yarn technology	Eric Oxtoby	1979	5
	Woolcraft Book	Constance Jackson	1980	5
	The Ashford Book of Spinning	Anne Field	1986	5
	The art of the loom	Ann Hecht	1989	5
	Hand woolcombing and spinning	Peter Teal	1976	4
	Yarn and cloth making	Mary Lois Kissell	1918	3
	Methods of hand spinning in Egypt and the Sudan	Grace M. Crowfoot	1931	3
	The joy of spinning	Marilyn Kluger	1971	3
	Creative spinning, weaving and plant-dyeing	Beryl Anderson	1971	3
	Maintenance management in spinning	T. V. Ratnam	1977	3
	Spinning, dyeing, and weaving	Penny Walsh	2009	3
	Principles of worsted spinning	Priestman, Howard	1906	2
	The spinning wheel	W. Born	1939	2
	A basic textile book	Margaret Seagroatt	1975	2
	Spinning and spinning wheels	Eliza Leadbeater	1979	2
	Spinning and weaving at home	Thomas Kilbride	1980	2
	The Ashford book of spinning	Anne Field	1986	2
	Color in spinning	Deb Menz	1998	2
	Handspinning	Judith MacKenzie McCuin	2007	2
	Fundamentals of High Performance Wushu	Raymond Wu	2007	2
	The Spinners Book of Yarn Designs	Sarah Anderson	2012	2
	Electrospinning	Bin Ding	2018	2
	Hand Spinning	Pam Austin	2018	2
	Hand-spinning and hand-weaving	New York Public Library.	1922	1
	Complete guide to hand spinning of all kinds	K. Grasett	1930	1
	Fibres, spindles and spinning-wheels	Dorothy K. Macdonald	1944	1
	Handspinning: art & techniques	Allen FANNIN	1970	1
	Spinning & Dyeing the Natural Way	Ruth A. Castino	1974	1

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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