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| Majacraft distributor |
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As Majacraft distrbutor, I have Aura, Rose,Suzie & Little Gem spinning wheels, Hackles, and the NEW Dynamic Heddle Loom available here for you to experience which one you like best.
See how comfortable and easy they are to create your unique products on. Crafted with pride, Majacraft wheels offer a unique spinning experience. Not only are they built to be beautiful and feature rich, but great care has been taken to ensure they are erognomically designed to fit your body and your spinning style. Because of the handwork required, every wheel is different and may not look exactly like the next wheel. They each have a different character and the charm of an individually crafted wheel.
All you need to spin your dreams. |
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Date: 15 Jan 2013 |
| Cochenille Software Distributor |
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Garment Designer & Stitchpainter the computer software that allow you to design garments and patterns for both Knitwear, sewing, felting & weaving.
Garment Designer for Windows or Macintosh is a garment design program that has been on the market since 2001. It allows sewers to print a pattern, in tiled pages from a standard printer, to tape together. It also allows knitters to build and chart a garment. Knitters quickly found that the paper pattern was an excellent tool to use for blocking knits into perfect shape.
Garment Designer provides a multitude of features which make your design world not only simple, but very visual, and in general, a lot of fun.
The user may choose a standard size to begin the design process. These include Womens 2 to 50, Mens 32 to 50, Childrens and Infants, sizes as well as several dolls and even some stuffed animals. Simply choose the menu, and slide up or down to the desired size. Or, if one prefers, he/she may enter their own personal measurements and create a pattern that works with the shape of their body. Once you have chosen a style, you see a sloper of your body, in green on the screen. The pattern (in black) surrounds the sloper and with the grid feature tuned on, one can quickly see how much ease is allowed in any given style. For further information, one can turn on the garment dimensions and quickly see a schematic presentation of the garment. To build a garment, you simply choose amongst the numerous menu items in each of the sub design groups; body style, neckline, armhole, shoulder, and sleeve. This mix and match approach provides hundreds of thousands of combinations for the user to explore. In addition, you may add bands or ribs to the garment and the software will understand to remove them when charting a pattern piece. Garment Designer allows one to print out knitting instructions (in a knitters cheat sheet format), which is ideal for machine knitters. It also allows you to print the pattern pieces in full scale as well as half and quarter scale. These are helpful for those who want to draw on the pattern and then use a knit leader/radar to shape the garment and apply intarsia, etc.
StitchPainter
This fabulous design tool is specifically geared to the needs of textile and craft designers of all sorts and we made it so user-friendly, you scarcely need a manual. Stitch Painter will open endless doors to your creativity, tailoring itself to any design goal that uses a grid, from weaving to needlepoint and cross-stitch to knits.
Stitch Painter operates in a color grid world and everything is counted in stitches and rows. The grid may be setup as square or rectangular, and thus you can use the software for multiple textile arts. Various Plug-in modules customize Stitch Painter further for certain end uses such as stitchery, beading or intelligently importing and color reducing graphic images.
You may print directly from Stitch Painter or export in standard formats, thus allowing you to take imagery to publishing packages or other programs.
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Date: 14 Jan 2013 |
| NZ Distributor of Ertoel Wheels |
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The Roberta Electronic Spinner is the Rolls Royce of spinners. Made in Melbourne Australia, these spinners are beautiful to spin with and plying is a dream.
The Reasons why the Roberta electronic spinner is the Rolls Royce or Cadillac of spinners.
When the bobbin fills, there is no need to stop and adjust anything. No need to alter the tension on a bobbin brake, as you progress. Just keep spinning from start to finish.
Very fast, with high speed plying. Everything is balanced, to prevent vibrations.
The combo version can ply two full bobbins rapidly, without stopping and joining the yarn.
Bobbins never get worn, or get noisy over time, even after 20 years of constant use
Built for commercial use. This was proven by one owner, by spinning up to 2 kg of fibre, every working day for more than eight years, before the first service was needed.
Spin up to three times more than on a treadle wheel, (given the same period of time), and do it more easily. Not just because it has a motor, but also because of the unique bobbin driven system.
A 10 year warranty on the motor. 2 years warranty on the whole spinner.
Each one handcrafted with a superior furniture gloss finish.
The yarn does not break with irregular drafting, and you can still get a good quality of yarn. (great for a beginner).
Extremely versatile spinner. Use any type of fibre, and make any type of yarn. There is three ways to control and design a yarn. (instead of the usual two). The third way is the hold back to the pull of the spinner while drafting the fibre from the fingers. A light hold back creates a different yarn, to a hard hold back.
The Roberta spinner’s jumbo bobbins hold more than twice the volume of other brands of motorized spinners. Jumbo bobbins hold 300gm, and even more, if rounded up when filled.
Uses less power than a household bulb, i.e. 40-60 watts.
The flyer hooks are made from hard wearing stainless steel. Resists abrasive dust in Alpaca fibre.
The working bobbin is quick and easy to take off.
The dual powered Roberta electronic spinner is totally portable.
All the top parts are individually balanced, so there are little or no vibrations at speed. We have a carpet manufacturer in Melbourne, who has several Roberta’s, and they run them at top speed for spinning man made fibres, for carpet samples. They have owned 5 Roberta spinners for quality laboratory work for more than 26 years.
Proven for over 38 years of production. (in 2011). One spinner model, perfected in every detail, over that time.
The motor is quiet, because it is insulated from the timber back, including the fixing points.
Each Roberta electronic spinner is hand crafted.
The Roberta electronic spinner is value for money.
The Roberta electronic spinner is not just another spinner on the market. The Roberta is quality with a capital Q. There are a lot of hidden quality points in the manufacture, which the average person cannot see (such as being balanced for high speed plying, and the felt insulated motor).
Please contact us to ask any questions or order your Roberta electronic spinner now. |
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Date: 14 Jan 2013 |
| New Zealand Wool Fabrics & felt |
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Available now is New Zealand wool and processed here in New Zealand, a variety of fabrics and felt. Wool mattress Underlay fabric by the metre or in bed size.
Machine made wool felt in various colours and milled coating weight, great for fashion designers.
Wool blanketing in orange or jade.
Stretch wool fabrics and wool polar fleece.
Please contact me for more information. |
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Date: 14 Jan 2013 |
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