no tools except knife - and a curious brain....

Rare breed wool and a Forrester Granny spindle bought at Black Sheep Gathering. Blogged here.

Again using the exerciser, this time to check that the spindle motor would run correctly.

Petite Russian Spindle of Osage Orange

Weight:48

Length: 8 7/8"

wooden spindle

on bosworth maxi, zircote (60 g). fiber is CVM-llama blend from Amelia at the Bellwether.

The Kidkraft Spindle Rocking Chair is inspired by painter Norman Rockwell’s classic artwork and was designed to capture the timelessness of that era. Kids will love rocking back and forth in this child-sized chair.

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This spindle was shown by one of the participants. I would loved to have one like this. It is gorgeous

For our daily challenge on 5 February, six railing spindles in the fading light and processed with ColorEfex 4.

microtubules and spindle tree

i love the spindle bush with its bright orange, pink leaves and beautiful bright pink berries, its my most favorite of the hedgerow plants, and always reminds me of my childhood walks across the fields.

12/28/09. Everything about this spindle reminds me of chocolate... I'm hungry just looking at it.

The length is 12 1/2 inches and it weighs 1.2 oz.

Spinning Yakkity Yak on a grippingyarn russian spindle

Michigan's Fred Richard shows how it's done.

I don't know if this is a spindle. It could be some sort af bobbin.

Cocobolo Spindle.

1.25 oz

Bought at Stitches West

Tektin 2 (yellow) organizes the central spindle microtubules (purple) at mitosis, enabling cells to divide. (JCB 181(4) TOC1)

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: Durcan et al. (2008) J. Cell Biol. 181:595.

Published: May 12, 2008.

doi: 10.1083/jcb.200711160.

Read the full article at:

jcb.rupress.org/cgi/content/full/181/4/595

Dave has crafted the whorl of this elegant Tibetan supported spindle from chechen wood. Chechen is also known as Caribbean rosewood. The cherry shaft measures 11 1/2 inches long, and the weight of this beautiful handspinning tool is 50 grams.

A young Colt employee stands beside a single spindle drill. This drill was used to drill a frame's recoil shield.

Museum of Connecticut History, Accession 2002.431.09

The spindle of the Sleeping Beauty ;).

Вретеното на Спящата красавица ;).

Canon AE-1, Canon FD 50mm 1:1.4, KODAK Klassik 200

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

Canon AE-1, Canon FD 24mm 1:2.8, KODAK Klassik 200

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.

Reclamation center in Richmond. They must have had 20 barrels of this stuff.

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.

Drop spindles by AnnieMay on etsy

My drop spindle from KnitAlpaca.com.au

A spindle berry for day 40 of BBC Autumnwatch 100 Days of Nature.

I love Redheart, and these large spindles are great for working with heavy fibers like Icelandic, and mediums like Romney.

Spindle assembly with top bearing slipped on.

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)

Cambridgeshire Woodland.

Bosworth Moosie Spindle

For Stephanie (nandeni)

Spindle, Euonymus europaeus. Bushes in fruit. Alder Carr, nr. Lineage Wood, Long Melford, Suffolk.

Note the (Muntjac) deer browse line.

I usually don't like Aquos Bakugan, but this is one of the exception.

Russian/French hybrid spindle made of Ziricote. 11 1/2 inches.

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