The word "homespun" is correct and usable in written English.
It is an adjective that is typically used to describe something that is homemade, simple, or traditional. For example, you could use the phrase "homespun wisdom" to refer to wise sayings or advice that has been passed down through generations.
I come from a superstitious lot, with a grandmother and mother who not only did the standards – knocking wood, throwing salt, gathering four-leaf clovers, U-turning if a black cat crossed their paths – but also practiced a more homespun lunacy that included wrapping red ribbons around our wrists, stowing sugar in drawers, and assorted bizarre rituals to counter The Evil Eye.
The result, which airs on BBC4 next week, is a charmingly homespun, low-tech, very British vision of space travel.
But both may struggle to survive in the Premier League and if it is difficult to imagine a homespun team from Dorset trading blows with Manchester United and Chelsea, the rise of Watford is just as remarkable.
Well, probably not, but this is a survey of British popular art with a rustic, homespun flavour.
That's the homespun skepticism that earned Missouri its unofficial nickname – the stuff of license plates: the Show-Me State.
"Why buy one," asks the mother, when a homespun substitute does the job?Ms Jadhav is one of 300m menstruating Indian women who eschew sanitary pads in favour of rags, dry leaves, straw or newspapers.
Mr Osborne's austerity policies have a homespun logic: after overspending, you must save.
In an interconnected world such insularity leads to economic ruin, Mr Mikitani says".Marketplace 3.0" also contains much homespun wisdom about business.
Jacob Weisberg, a leftish American journalist, has compiled a couple of books of "Bushisms", casting a patronising look at the everyday verbal glitches of a homespun Texan.
Mr Ignatieff, in particular, had a slick machine, which doled out sandwiches and bottled water bearing the Iggy logo and had managers in headsets manoeuvring hordes of supporters into place for supposedly spontaneous demonstrations.In contrast, Mr Dion's campaign looked homespun, consisting mainly of green T-shirts and placards.
The magazine emphasised homespun values and leaned to the right Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan were fans.
