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SPINNING EQUIPMENT & SUPPLIES xx SPINNING Before the spinning wheel. Making and using a drop spindle. How to make and spin on a drop spindle. How to spin with a drop spindle. Spin wool using a potter's wheel. Distaffs. Part 1. A historial look at the various shapes and sizes. Distaffs. Part 2. Dressing the distaff. Step-by-step photos and text show how to dress a distaff with a flax strick. Spinning with a bead whorl spindle. A look at the high whorl spindle, its historic uses, differences in various cultures, and instructions on how to use one. The drop spindle. A review of its history, the characteristics of various ethnic designs and advice how to spin with one. Recipe for summer fun. Sun dyeing and apple spinning for kids. Sun dyeing of wool uses powdered drink mix as the dyestuff. Apple spinning tells how to make a drop spindle from an apple and dowel (or pencil). A guide to Colonial spinning equipment. Techniques for spinning on the charkha, a hand-operated spindle wheel of Indian origin. How to make a spindle whorl for a drop spindle from a clay pot. Using a "hooked stick" to spin yarn. How to demonstrate carding wool and spinning with a handspindle (drop spindle). Includes tips on making a workable handspindle from 3 sticks. How to use the high-whorl lap spindle of Iceland. Suitcase distaff is made from a dowel, three wooden disks and a block to clamp onto a table edge. Solutions to problems with flyer and bobbin wheel spinning. Tip: Slide-on hinge from a plastic report cover protects a spinner from the sharp tines of a Russian paddle comb. Tip describes how to make a "lazy Kate" for takli-style supported spindles so each spindle can rotate freely for plying directly from them. A handy gadget for spinning Berber-type yarn with bits of color added at intervals. How to make and use a "madman" to wind coarsely textured yarn (like that spun from horsehair). Tip suggests a simple drying rack for fine fiber. How to make a diz from a section of cow horn or seashell. It is used to funnel fibers into a roving from any kind of wool comb or to make smaller roving from commercial roving. Drop spindle basics. Four points to check when choosing a drop spindle. How to attach a leader, hold the fiber, spin, wind on, wind off and ply. The high-whorl spindle and how to use it in both the drop mode and as a supported spindle. Wrist distaffs. Instructions for using macrame techniques to make a bracelet distaff for use when spinning with a drop spindle (or wheel). How to make and spin with a supported spindle. Spinning on a takli spindle, a type of supported spindle from India. Spinning on a Navajo spindle, a supported spindle with long wooden shaft and large whorl. Includes instructions for making Navajo 3-ply yarn. How to make paper quills for use on spinning spindles. Quill and yarn slip off without rewinding. How to make hand (drop) spindles with bread-clay whorls. Tip explains how to make a no-hands diz for drawing strips of drum-carded wool batt into a roving. Homemade diz is self-supporting and has multi-sized holes for drawing carded fiber into top of varying thicknesses. Spinning on the go. One spinner's advice on spindle selection and advice on both drop-spindle and supported-spindle techniques. How to make a small, lightweight drop spindle from a dowel, small screweye hook and a wooden toy wheel. How to make a drop spindle from a compact disc and a dowel rod. Both top-whorl and bottom-whorl spindle versions described. An introduction to the handspindle (drop spindle). Simple distaffs to make that will hold a handspindle's worth of fiber, neatly organized so it doesn't flop around or catch onto the yarn. (1) Twisted skein distaff. (2) Two skein twisted distaff. (3) Supertwist skein distaff. (4) Knitted-cuff wrist distaff. (5) Stick distaff. How to dress a distaff with flax. Old-time spinning chair is used as the pattern for a nursing chair (for changing diapers) and children's back-stool. This solid-wood chair features a storage drawer under the seat. An unusual spinning chair features a miniature drive wheel as part of the chair back. | |||||||||
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