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January 2010 - the MAIWA BLOG

Exciting New Yarns

Three reasons to make Maiwa your Local Yarn Shop.LouetWe have just brought in some European linen from Louet. Featured here are two of the Euroflax samples: a 100% linen bulky/chunky weight and a 100% wet spun linen in #2/Sport weight. Also shown is a KidLin, this is a...

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Eri Silk Assam

Assam: Land of the Golden Silk - Part 5(Our 2008 visit to Assam in search of three types of silk.)At the close of our ...

Eri Silk Orissa

Assam: Land of the Golden Silk - Part 4(Our 2008 visit to Assam in search of three types of silk.)When we were getting ...

Creating a Garden of Natural Dye Plants - Part 1

Our latest video podcast just went up.Part 1 - Introduction and PresentationMichel GarciaMichel Garcia is a practicing ...

Come in out of the cold

We have made a display of all our coats at Maiwa East. Thats ... Bhunai Coat Thappa Coat Neem Coat Supari Coat Tabla ...

Michael Cook's Wormspit

We came across Wormspit when we were doing silk research for our 2008 trip to Assam. If you have any interest in silk ...

On the Road: Visiting Jawaja

It is early January 2010 and our jeep has just rolled into the Jawaja Village. The last time we saw the weavers and ...

Numen Gallery • Vancouver Yarn • Art of Craft

2010 has come in like a lion with a number of key events we'd like to share.Our very own Hilary Young, together with ...

Tussar Silk in Assam

Assam: Land of the Golden Silk - Part 3(Our 2008 visit to Assam in search of three types of silk.)We are strangers in ...