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Wee, little Turkish spindle from Jenkins Woodworking. Pictures can't really show how small this spindle really is. It's so freaking cute and still spins perfectly.
Whorl: Holly
Shaft: Apple
Weight: 10 grams
Size: 6 cm wing span, shaft 8.5 cm long
usually whenever I go to an art fair I look for big vases to store big spindles and support spindles. The vase in the back was a gift from my dad in-law.
lately my love of support spindle has grown exponentially, so they kind of need their own home. Due to summer graduate school I couldn't attend a lot of art fair this summer. Last Monday, hubby and I went to Dakota county fair to visit my submission to the fair. I won 2 blue ribbons under handspun category for both handspun yarn and handspun shawl. We also tried a homemade root beer thus the can from Bayou Billy. The vendor is there every year this is the first year we try it. We loved the taste. Not too sweet as some commercially made root beer.
So now the can is being used as a home for the support spindles. I put rice inside to help keep the support spindles stand.
The peoples of the Northwest Coast spun the locally available wild mountain goat wool, which could then be made into the dance blankets called Chilkat blankets, and into woven burden straps. This spindle was made from the measurements of a spindle in the Canadian Museum of Civilization collected by Marius Barbeau in the 1920's. The whorl is birch wood 8.5 cm diameter, planed by my friend Stephen Tufford to 9mm thickness, and the shaft is 62 cm long, shaped from a hardwood dowel. Spinning is done in a roughly horizontal position by rolling the base of the shaft down the calf...reconstructed from several archival photos of Gitksan women spinning, with help from my friend Val Celuzak.
Golding Spindles are made in Vermont. They are a high quality spindle with great balance. Plus they are beautifly designedl They are works art! The whorl on this spindle was made in Tibet. This is a high whorl spindle, the hook is just below the whorl.
I love Redheart, and these large spindles are great for working with heavy fibers like Icelandic, and mediums like Romney.
Laceweight yarn spindle-spun from batts. From left, Squoosh batt (merino, firestar, bamboo), Juliespins batt in Walnut (merino, silk, bamboo), Abby batt in Devon Cream (organic merino, silk, cashmere), Enchanted Knoll Farm batt in Queen Mermaid (superwash merino, sari silk, firestar)
Spindle, Euonymus europaeus. Bushes in fruit. Alder Carr, nr. Lineage Wood, Long Melford, Suffolk.
Note the (Muntjac) deer browse line.
My spindle booty from the festival. So much for saying "I'm not a spindler. I'm not going to be buying any spindles." I am Eating. My. Words.
Rank: Staff Nurse
Date of Death: 21/08/1917
Age: 26
Regiment/Service: Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service -
44th Casualty Clearing Station
Grave Reference XVI. A. 3.
Cemetery LIJSSENTHOEK MILITARY CEMETERY
Additional Information:
Daughter of George and Elizabeth Spindler, of Wakefield. One of only two female casualties of the Great War buried in Belgium.
This exquisite 1.6 ounce (44grams) moose antler Tibetan support spindle has been intricately carved by Dave with his signature leaf and rose motif. The whorl measures 1 5/8 inches in diameter, and the cocobolo shaft is 10 1/2 inches in length.
Our originally designed support spinning bowl combines the efficiency of a ceramic surface with the stability of a wide beautiful wooden base. The ceramic bowl measures 1 3/4 inches in diameter, and the gorgeous cocobolo wooden base is 2 3/4 inches in diameter. Cork has been added to the bottom of this bowl to keep the wood from scratching other hard surfaces.
**Moose antlers are naturally shed each year, so no moose were harmed to create this spindle.**
some of my spindles and pinnes
the pinne in the middle is made of walnut, the upper pinne is spalted beech and the lower is ash
Spindle (green) shortening (top to bottom) requires the microtubule-severing enzyme katanin. (JCB 175(6) TOC3)
This image is available to the public to copy, distribute, or display under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.
Reference: McNally et al. (2006) J. Cell Biol. 175:881-891.
Published on: December 18, 2006.
Doi: 10.1083/jcb.200608117.
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Sheep in Colonial Williamsburg Virginia.
Taken with Kodak Duo Six-20 Camera on Fomapan 100, 120 film respooled onto 620 spindles. Camera made from 1934 to 1940. Makes a 4.5x6 negative, 18 on a roll. Cropped square
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Spindle Tree (Euonymus europaeus)
Often found as a shrub rather than a tree, although is capable of growing to 10 meters, this unusual hedgerow tree is usually overlooked by most, except during the autumn when it can produce these striking berries and autumn colours.
The name of the tree and has a fascinating etymology, and is rarely agreed upon.
In old herbals it is referred to as Skewerwood, Prickwood, Pincushion Shrub, gatter, gatten, or gadrose. The Spindle Tree name is the dutch name, and another common name is Robin's Bread.
The wood is very dense, and splits well, taking an incredibly sharp point - as such it was used as toothpicks, skewers, knitting needles, spindles for working wool (hence the Dutch name), and bird-cages. The high-quality charcoal is preferred by artists.
The Latin name Euonymus may be a reference to it's poisonous irritating natures, and links the plant with Euonyme, Mother of the Furies. www.mythindex.com/greek-mythology/E/Erinnyes.html
The berries contain theobromine and caffeine, as well as an extremely bitter terpene. Ingestion can result in liver and kidney damage and even death. The leaves can kill sheep. Apparently the berries, if boiled in water produce a yellow dye, but I haven't tried this.
Chip carved spindles we've named Aegean for the arm of the Mediterranean Sea between Turkey and Greece. Asia Minor where the Turkish spindle has long flourished in various forms.
"you turn on a spindle. you're so much looser now, but you're not explaining how you gained such new repose."
so i guess i finished this idea sooner than i had anticipated. this is a new series i want to try. it's called A Spindle, A Darkness, A Fever and A Necklace, inspired by the song by Bright Eyes. i'm doing this because i really love that song, it's so inspiring and because Conor Oberst is the most amazing writer/lyricist to ever live. this is the first of the series.
this is my first time working with a separate texture. i'm not sure what i think of this. i can't wait until the rest, i have so many ideas.