What did these Victorians know about practical? What were they thinking?
An homage to one of the Navajo Nation's most accomplished dyers and cultural keepers.
Linda Ligon recalls going to the feed store with her mother and shopping for sacks for a feed-sack dress.
If you’re a knitter, and even if you’re not, you’ll marvel at the sight of men in handsome traditional dress strolling along the paths knitting fine, intricate caps.
This is a sad story. It’s the story of young love, transatlantic voyages, early demise, heartbreak, a family wrenched apart, and a bit of handmade lace that survived.
Here’s the story of how Linda Ligon's son got lost in Tunis and discovered a not-quite-magical cloak.
Linda Ligon wrote this poem and read it during the Schacht Spindle Company's 50th anniversary celebration in September 2019. We hope you love it as much as we do.
Since beginning her independent craft publishing project in 1975, Linda Ligon saw the weaving, spinning, and needlework magazines move to bigger and bigger offices. But there’s no place like home.
Victorian and Edwardian women, those with the leisure to make things by hand, had a different view of what textiles were necessary in their daily lives or what was worth their creative effort. . . .
