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This Mayan Spindle was made with a dowel and a piece of scrap wood drilled to fit the dowel which I glued on to the top. The spinning part is wood from a clementine orange box that I took apart.
New items from SpinOlution. Three sizes of drop spindles. Check out my listing at www.janicerosema.etsy.com for more information.
My early spindles. Red oak Russian, pine Russian, pine Tibetan, padauk phang, zebrawood Russian, and padauk Tiny Tibetan™.
Jenkins Purpleheart Standard 2.0 oz with my homemade toy truck wheel/dowel spindles. Fiber is Knit Picks Wool of the Andes Bare roving that I dyed with koolaid.
This Tibetan support spindle is approximately 12 1/2 inches long and weighs 38g (1.3 ounces). The Cherry whorl measures approximately 1.75 inches and has been attached to a Walnut shaft. The tip has been crafted from Honduran Rosewood.
The Kundert is birds-eye maple. It's a good plying spindle, lots of room under the whorl and down the shaft.
Euonymus europaeus (spindle, European spindle, common spindle)
Camera: Canon EOS 40D DSLR
Lens: Rodenstock Rodagon 150mm F/5.6 enlarging lens reverse mounted on bellows.
with my Wildcraft Pebble resin spindle. I can't remember what this exact fibre is (probably shetland) but it is in a beautiful russety brown/pink/orange autumnal colour. Hoping to get between a DK and worsted weight yarn.
When the crownshaft splits, it can look like a high-fashion garment. This palm, to my great sorrow, was killed by Hurricane Wilma.
Wee, little Turkish spindle from Jenkins Woodworking. Pictured with Jenkins Turkish Delight for size reference.
Whorl: Holly
Shaft: Apple
Weight: 10 grams
Size: 6 cm wing span, shaft 8.5 cm long
Stained cherry spindle-bed detail built by a client. Lit with shoot-through umbrella high camera right. In situ shot (the bed was setup in the client's spare bedroom).
From left: purple and green Fimo spindle, blue akha-style ditto, weird spindle off eBay, smaller Ashford, Ashford Student.
Found this old yarn testing gadget catalogue in a dusty box this morning that I think Robin Crozier sent us many years ago.
My first supported spindle project. Crown Mountain Farms superwash merino on "Oh Pretty Woman".
This is turning out thicker than I usually spin, and very soft and fluffy. Spinning from the fold! I think that if I get a faster spinning spindle, I'll be able to spin thinner more naturally.
I came upon this spindle in the Hanningfield nature reserve. Wikipedia tells us: euonymus europaeus (spindle, European spindle, common spindle) is a species of flowering plant in the family Celastraceae, native to much of Europe, where it inhabits the edges of forest, hedges and gentle slopes, tending to thrive on nutrient-rich, chalky and salt-poor soils. It is a deciduous shrub or small tree. European spindle wood is very hard, and can be cut to a sharp point; it was used in the past for making wool spindles. D7100_09960.NEF. Many thanks for views, comments and favourites.
The spindle is a wild tree or large shrub native to Britain and other parts of Europe. The distinctive berries provide a useful late autumn and winter food source for birds. The tree takes its name from the time when the wood was used to make spindles for traditional style weaving looms in the textile industry.
I have to say I had a lot of trouble making these shots as not only was the wind blowing like mad but there were also only rare and intermittant short lived bursts of sunshine at the time. But I was determined to get some kind of result!