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Yarns & Fibers to Make Your Spirit Sing
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Rare, Endangered and Unusual Breed Spinning Fibers
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July 17, 2008:

We are very pleased to announce some new Retailers of Spirit Trail Fiberworks yarns and fibers!

Yarn4Socks now carries "Alexandra," a Spirit Trail Fiberworks Superwash Merino yarn in a variety of colors.

The Loopy Ewe now carries "Helen," a Spirit Trail Fiberworks superwash merino yarn. Again, loads of colors!

Carolina Homespun now sells a selection of Spirit Trail Fiberworks yarns at their West Coast shows!

Spunky Eclectic has some Spirit Trail Fiberworks rare breed fibers.

Stay tuned ~ more retailers are currently in the works!

In the meantime, I'm still working on site updates. Please note that at this time, this site is not up to date and some of the yarns may already be sold. If you purchase a yarn which is no longer available, I will send you a refund immediately. Most of the fibers are up to date; I just have new ones to add.

Please note that if you purchased the Flower Petals Lace Shrug pattern at either Maryland Sheep & Wool or New Hampshire Sheep & Wool, we are experiencing issues with this pattern and are currently reviewing and correcting it. Please email me if you did purchase this, so I can send you a corrected pattern when it's done. Our sincere apologies!

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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

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.

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

Mary Oliver