Turkish spindle

An experienced spinner can make almost any spindle do the job, but for a new spinner, picking the wrong spindle can lead to discouragement. From top-whorl to Turkish, size matters.

I look for unusual spinning tools at every festival, and Scott Snyder had a table full at Convergence 2016 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Beside his impressive array of Turkish spindles stood a tool I’d never seen before: a Scottish spindle.

A post on how I do my fast, round Turkish spindle wind on

An experienced spinner can make almost any spindle do the job, but for a new spinner, picking the wrong spindle can lead to discouragement. From top-whorl to Turkish, size matters.

Bottom whorl drop spindles, as their name suggests, differ from the high or top whorl spindles by the fact that the whorl is situated in the lower part of the shaft, giving it a low centre of gravi…

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In the last installment of my spinning misadventures, I was trying to decide what to spin from a lovely bump of Targhee wool. Since this is my first time working with Targhee, I decided to keep things simple and go with a solid 2-ply yarn. The fiber gets to lead the rest of the way and do its

This is a blog post and video about plying on the fly on a Turkish spindle. I explain my technique in writing and you can watch the video I have linked to.

In this Turkish drop spindle tutorial, I will show you how I spin on a Turkish spindle from making a leader to plying from a center pull ball. I will cover e...

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