karissa and Marcelo feel they have an
ample food supply but with 97% of
apparel in the u.s. being imported they
fear that after an economic collapse
clothing will become unavailable so they
are learning how to make their own
clothes from scratch doana economic
collapse we’re gonna have to know how to
use every part in every piece of our
animals and that includes their hair
known as she and gora dog hair was
historically used by the Navajo tribe to
produce textiles since before the
colonization of America good job good
job
no with dog hair said to be 80% warmer
than wool Karissa and Marcelo stockpile
both dog and goat hair in waterproof
containers all around their property we
have goat hair and dog hair and one of
the things to definitely learn is to
make your own clothing he’s doing pretty
good so we’re getting some local experts
out here today to help us see if we can
figure out how to spin animal hair what
were you guys interested in learning how
to spin go here and some dog hair so the
problem we’re gonna run into with the
goat here is that it’s a really smooth
hairy fiber versus a woolen fiber which
has a lot of crimp in the fibers strands
that help lock it together we use these
these are called hand cards so we’re
gonna have you take a little bit of the
goat hair yeah that’s a really good job
so the goal of this is to get all the
fibers in one direction um it makes a
lot easier to spin if they are almost
aligned do you think we can use the dog
hair to make it a little bit better we
could try
not working so well doesn’t really seem
like make a roll log so not so good I
not work out so well the goat hair and
the dog hair are too short to be able to
be woven together to make yarn we
probably suggest using like a longer
staple length of something you can try
keep in here um
I’ve never tried it but it’s an option
we need the longer hair to fit in with
the shorter hair so I thought maybe we
could use some human hair oh good job
Amy
once the human hair is carded locking
the clumps of fiber together a spindle
is used to twist the fibers into yarn
yeah it works we did try the human hair
and it actually worked and we made yarn
about six feet long so in the second
great depression hits we’ll be able to
use our animals and now we know we will
be able to use their hair as well it’s
nice color – yeah
ample food supply but with 97% of
apparel in the u.s. being imported they
fear that after an economic collapse
clothing will become unavailable so they
are learning how to make their own
clothes from scratch doana economic
collapse we’re gonna have to know how to
use every part in every piece of our
animals and that includes their hair
known as she and gora dog hair was
historically used by the Navajo tribe to
produce textiles since before the
colonization of America good job good
job
no with dog hair said to be 80% warmer
than wool Karissa and Marcelo stockpile
both dog and goat hair in waterproof
containers all around their property we
have goat hair and dog hair and one of
the things to definitely learn is to
make your own clothing he’s doing pretty
good so we’re getting some local experts
out here today to help us see if we can
figure out how to spin animal hair what
were you guys interested in learning how
to spin go here and some dog hair so the
problem we’re gonna run into with the
goat here is that it’s a really smooth
hairy fiber versus a woolen fiber which
has a lot of crimp in the fibers strands
that help lock it together we use these
these are called hand cards so we’re
gonna have you take a little bit of the
goat hair yeah that’s a really good job
so the goal of this is to get all the
fibers in one direction um it makes a
lot easier to spin if they are almost
aligned do you think we can use the dog
hair to make it a little bit better we
could try
not working so well doesn’t really seem
like make a roll log so not so good I
not work out so well the goat hair and
the dog hair are too short to be able to
be woven together to make yarn we
probably suggest using like a longer
staple length of something you can try
keep in here um
I’ve never tried it but it’s an option
we need the longer hair to fit in with
the shorter hair so I thought maybe we
could use some human hair oh good job
Amy
once the human hair is carded locking
the clumps of fiber together a spindle
is used to twist the fibers into yarn
yeah it works we did try the human hair
and it actually worked and we made yarn
about six feet long so in the second
great depression hits we’ll be able to
use our animals and now we know we will
be able to use their hair as well it’s
nice color – yeah
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