RSPB Sandwell Valley

Spinning up the silk I've dyed

first handspun spindle yarn. 2 ply superfine merino.

fiber from Black Mustard.

Backyard moth sheet and trap, Scarborough, Ontario

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Two lovely spindles from Steve Kundert.

Left: plain Red Cedar whorl, Maple shaft

Right: Wormy Butternut over Red Cedar with Walnut shaft

1.2 oz both

Cherry Drop Spindle Turned from a single block of Cherry. aprox 3" dia whorl over all length is12 "

Colourful blossom of the spindle bush, seen in Panshanger Great Park.

The Panshanger Estate in the Mimram Valley, near Hertford, was designed on the advice of the famous landscape architects Sir Humphry Repton and Lancelot 'Capability' Brown.

Jenkins Turkish Aegean

19 g or .67 oz.

blossom woods fall pink orange spindle tree

One of my other loves is stained glass and particularly Tiffany Lamps. The idea of decorating my spindles and wheels has been floating around in my head for a while.

Armed with some Ashford Classic spindles, my copy of 'The Lamps of Tiffany' and some patience, this is the result!

More photos and information at handspinner.co.uk/tiffany_drop_spindles.html

Euonymus europaeus

These strange green flowers are on a shrub of about 6m high.

The common name of "Spindle Tree" derives from the fact that the tough and splinter-resistant wood was used to make spindles for spinning fibres into thread.

Alongside the A3 trunk road near Godalming, Surrey.

secret garden by sosae caetano

The first four chip-carved spindles Ed made based on a spindle bought over 15 years ago in a marketplace in Greece.

East Indian Rosewood is the gorgeous wood used to craft the whorl on this Tibetan support spindle. The shaft is Cocobolo.

Weird orange and pink fruit of spindle.

Hatfield Forest, Essex

spinning some fluff from the drumcarder

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Designed by Robert Lang. Folded by me.

This Tibetan support spindle is approximately 12 1/2 inches long and weighs 50g (1.8 ounces). The Goncalo Alves whorl measures approximately 1.75 inches and has been attached to a Birch shaft. The tip has been crafted from hard Mesquite.

Whorl: Padauk & zebrawood

Shaft: Zebrawood, 7 1/2"

Weight: 0.95 g.

Purchased from Hatchtown Farms at the Maryland Sheep & Wool Festival, May 2005.

spindle: malcolm fielding spindle

fiber: natural brown baby camel.

i ran out of yardage for haruni shawl. so i gotta spin some more. hopefully 1 oz should cover the last 4 rows plus bind off.

Wildcraft Woollies Resin Spindle

Fuseau en résine avec inclusion de boutons de rose et de lavande

Photo taken during a birding by boat cruise on the Osprey in Cape May.

This sculpture by artist Blessing Hancock is located in the Village of West Greenville plaza near the Anchorage restaurant. It was created to honor the 15th anniversary of the Artisphere art festival. Titled 'Spindle', it is modeled after the spindles in textile mills of the past. The internal dynamic colored LED lighting adds a distinct character at night.

The metal surface is composed of words supplied by residents about Greenville. At night their shadow spells out words on the ground.

And then fitted into the disk drive chassis.

This is a bottom view showing the yarn that started in Corner #4 being wound diagonally to Corner #2.

spindlers

French Style Spindle Replica by Spanish Peacock in front, GrippingYarn Russian Style spindle in back

Walnut, 12", 27 grams

My lovely new Golding ringspindle, 28g, antique rose whorl, walnut.

The Rock and Spindle near St. Andrews, Fife. Columnar jointing in a basaltic plug.

Ikea shelf to store my spindles on.

At last, a better guess at what these things are, courtesy of americanmushrooms.com/taxa/Clavulinopsis_fusiformis_05.htm. These look very much like Yellow Spindle Coral fungus, Clavulinopsis fusiformis.

Here is an "exploded view" of the spindles assembly for each step.

My daughter is getting interested in making her own yarn and asked for a drop spindle. This is the second one as she wanted one with the hook on the other end, too, just to try both out. It's all oak. Helpy was hoping to do a little climbing.