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Yet another lovely turkish spindle from the Spanish Peacock. This one has a lignum vitae shaft & a flame alder whorl.
Whorl: 5"
Shaft: 10.5"
Weight: 1.2 oz
Amboyna burr, sycamore and walnut 16oz spindle handmade by IST Crafts. Shown overloaded with 50g of merino, mostly spun on my student spindle.
More from yesterday's set of the staircase at work, interestingly lit by a ray of sunshine (just don't tell health and safety!)
I've been freaking out my colleagues again this dinnertime, creeping about the office with my camera! The natural light coming in through an open door into the stairwell was quite magical on the turned spindles of the staircase.
My first two spindles. First from Butterfly girl Designs, the second from ford4him.
Lapis Square Whorl: Whorl - 2"
Shaft - 9-10"
Weight - 1.2 oz
Little Joe: Whorl - 3"
Shaft - 12"
Weight - 1.5 oz
1.2 oz Jenkins Turkish in Bamboo with 1.4 superwash merino. Fibre is from a Blue Moon Fiberarts Sheep to Shoe kit "Bella Coola"
Lace weight, 2-ply, 45.0 yards
This is a 2-ply charkha-spun yarn, plied on the Cascade Zebrawood Tiger Spindle. The fiber comes from my own pet German-cross angora, Delilah
7/2/08
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Bronica ETRSi
Fuji Acros 100
Left:
Buckeye Burl Whorl, 2 3/4''
Flamewood Shaft 10''
0.8 oz
Right:
Flamewood Whorl, 2 5/8''
Pernambuco Shaft 9 3/4''
1.3 oz
Part 1. "Transit of Venus" - Bocote (Mexican Rosewood), Pu-Yok - Lace Sheeoak, "Southern Cross" - Pacific Blackwood (Queen Ebony, Tubi)