The Tony Cardarelle Memorial Library

The Library

We are one of the few handspinning guilds in the area that still has a library! The guild library has a wide assortment of books, magazines, and DVDs on fiber-related topics, as well as fiber equipment, generously donated by members or specially purchased. 

For magazines, we have SpinOff, Handwoven, and Ply magazines in digital format from 2000 through 2024. We have indexes for SpinOff and Handwoven that span more years than our guild has been a subscriber, but is still very helpful in finding articles you may want to read. Ply magazine's index is available on their site. Currently, we have only hard copies of Ply magazine, but soon we will have digital copies as well. Finally, we have some issues of The Spinning Wheel Sleuth.

For equipment, we have a drum carder, a spinning wheel, hand cards, a wool picker, a rigid heddle loom, and an inkle loom.

Requesting Items to Borrow

Scroll through the files to see the items we have for member checkout and send a request by filling out the request form below. It is helpful if you copy and paste the item name from our lists/indexes so that the librarian can select EXACTLY what you’d like to borrow. For the Ply index, look up the article and note the Issue number, season (spring, summer, etc), and the year, and then navigate back to the Spindles and Flyers library web page and transcribe that information into our form as you would for all other requests.

Items may be checked out for one month and are due back on the due date stamped in the item's cover or container. The items may be renewed for additional time if they have not been requested by another member. During the Spindle and Flyers summer hiatus, please request anything you'd like to check out, and the librarian will contact you as to how best get the item to you during the time we are not having meetings.

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Requesting Additions to the Library

If you have a book, reference, item, or idea that you'd like to see in our library, please use the request form to let the librarian know why you would find them to be valuable to be included in our library. The current list of items that requested to be added to our library are as follows: