This class is an intro to spinning wool and to the basics of spinning on the wheel including parts of the wheel, historical context, worsted versus woolen spinning, art yarn versus standard strands, basic strategies for various fiber types and trouble shooting. Students will get to try different types of wheels with different tensioning systems as well. *Class price includes materials fee. Ash has been a fiber and textile artist the majority of their life. They like to joke that they had the most wonderful set of grandmothers who identified their AuDHD early and found a productive stim that kept them busy, engaged and set on a lifelong quest culminating in sheep. They learned to sew, knit and crochet at the age of 6, and eventually joined the living history community which led to a love of spinning, weaving, dying and historic textiles. They now live on a homestead in southern Maryland with their spouse, twin teenagers, a clouder of cats, too many sheep, flocks of poultry and two overworked live stock guardian dogs farming and creating full time. They have taught previously at the Waterford school, at Vikingscon, and hold workshops on the farm.