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From Barn to Yarn: The story of spinning wheels, with Heavenly Bresser

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Oct 16, 202449:04Arts

In this episode, Ben Miller speaks with knit maven Heavenly Bresser, founder of the store Heavenly Knitchet and devotee of ye olde spinning wheel. The pair gets into the mechanics of spinning wheels, the form’s centuries...

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