Archive for the ‘fiber’ Category

March 1st, 2011
Chieko Aihara: Fiber Artist
by
nyle

“We can comprehend each other when we recognize firstly what difference we have, and the next to try to respect our difference mutually.  We should have various measures, not only one. While we are living in a small world, we cannot know well ourselves as far as we have nothing to compare with.”  — Chieko [...]

February 2nd, 2011
Yarn Value at Artfibers
by
nyle

At Artfibers, our goal is to offer uniquely good value to our customers. Our web catalog contains several tools to help you make an informed buying decision. Estimator On every page in our catalog you will find an interactive estimator for that yarn.  We built this ourselves over several years — a lot of care [...]

December 4th, 2010
Newool Collection
by
nyle

In November of 2010 the Artfibers production team did something unusual.  In addition to the steady flow of work for orders and inventory, we also developed six new yarns, finishing and delivering to the store a total of 30 new colors.  The new yarns are ANIME, BRIE, MOSS BEACH, VINYA, WOOSH, and YURT.  Since all [...]

August 28th, 2009
silk, a miracle of nature
by
nyle

Chemists think of silk as a liquid crystal protein. In its natural form it is two proteins. A core filament forms the fiber that we know. It is encased in a very thin layer called sericin, also a protein. More about sericin later. Everyone has heard of the silkworm. In fact it is an immature [...]