Photograph covered in several layers of encaustic (beeswax & resin).

6" x 6" x 1 1/2"

Original photo.

The spindle is about 33" tall with a 7" whorl. Since I'm using it indoors I needed some sort of socket to rest the butt in so I glued a cap from a juice bottle onto a scrap of door trim. This actually works really well and the wood spinning on plastic has a very gentle sound.

Nice turn out for the wool spindling class at Live Oak Branch Library. Everyone had fun and learned a new craft!

Photo courtesy of Donna B.

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Drop spindle in Cocobolo and Lapis Lazuli by Autumn Hollow Farm available at www.autumnhollowfarm.com or at www.etsy.com/shop/AutumnHollowFarm

Penguin Quill Wheel, number 258. Manufactured between 1972 and 1974 in Sunshine Canyon, Colorado. Black walnut veneer with pine upright. Single treadle, direct drive with no belt. Spindle wheel sits directly on drive wheel with an adjustable spring to tension the spindle head down onto the drive wheel.

Dave made this gorgeous top whorl drop spindle from East Indian rosewood. He inlayed a beautiful piece of maple burl into the whorl. He has filled the voids in the burl with turquoise.

Huso de 30-35 gr, customizado.

made by her brother;

her Etsy shop is OgleDesign (http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5145899)

Stacks of cardboard cores for winding spools of finished yarn

Drop spindle with fibers

Asciano Spindle Series II

Wood: Cocobolo (Dalbergia retusa)

Weight: 1.1 oz

Name: Rudolph

Purchased at Stitches West 2009 by my husband as a surprise

the original spindles refinished. They look great.

Cradley, Malvern, Worcs. SO7347

Hooray! The spindle concept works (and looks very sweet) - available tomorrow 4.16.12 at www.chrisyates.net/store/puzz.html

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Cherry standard 1.02 oz

Holly Lark .56 oz

Olive Aegean .67 oz

Ethiopean spindles and raw cotton kindly given to me by my colleague.

I went over a year without purchasing any spindles, and so the last few months I bought a few.

The one on the left and the one on the right are from my LYS, made by a fellow Iowan. The one on the right is 1.2 ounces. The one of the left is a similar weight, but I can't remember exactly. It is on the shaft, which is covered with yarn.

The center one is my very first Golding. It is a .85 ounce Solid Purpleheart.

I love them all!

Christmas 2015.

The Water Works, behind the Art Museum, Philadelphia

Blogged: fiberdrunk.blogspot.com/2009/12/french-spindle-quenouille...

Made by Lisa Chan of Gripping Yarn:

www.grippingyarn.com/

12/10/09

Fantastic Pink

Louet drop spindles for handspinning. Available in top whirl or bottom whirl.

Spindle ermine moth web. Note the branches stripped bare of leaves by the caterpillars.

Jenkins Turkish Spindle

Wood: Tasmanian Blackwood

Weight: 1.9 ounce

Brown cotton & white bamboo. Blogged here: fiberdrunk.blogspot.com/search/label/russian lace spindles

6/1/08

spindle spun yarns, Shetland combed top and various handdyed fibers

Zebrawood whorl, Cochin Rosewood Shaft 21 grams

Fiber - my own blend

Zebrawood whorl, Cochin Rosewood Shaft 21 grams

Fiber - my own blend

from Tilt-A-Whorl

spindle

Benved (Euonymus europaeus), Huddinge.