A creative tutorial on spinning playful, textured “squiggle yarn” using a spinning wheel, demonstrating the artistic process ...

Part one of a creative experiment transforming a non-functional spinning wheel-shaped object into a real working spinner through mechanical tweaks and spinning theory.

My yarn was lumpy and bumpy ... Before you spring for a spinning wheel — which can easily cost several hundred dollars — look for a drop spindle (or “suspended spindle”).

A favorite winter pastime is still enjoyed by many today -- the art of the spinning wheel. Yarn or fiber is spun using the winding technique, as it is converted onto a spindle or bobbin.

and cranked the spinning wheel with the other hand. Not only could you spin yarn eight times faster with the spinning jenny, but you also didn’t need much skill to use it properly. With a ...

She tried to think of ways to produce more yarn, but the only way for her to scale was to hire one more person to operate another spinning wheel. Her operation could only scale linearly.

The Wolcott Mill Fiber Fair on March 30 was an opportunity for people to see the entire process of making wool into yarn. Beginning with the shearing of the sheep, to spinning the yarn and ...

The wooden spinning wheel is a copy of an C18th wheel. This would have been used to spin woollen yarn. The spinning wheel was replaced by machinery - firstly the Spinning Jenny and then the ...