An old photo of a woman from Eriskay spinning with a dealgan and distaff. She is seated in a chair and holding a dealgan in her right hand, whilst drafting wool from the distaff with her left hand.

Here is a picture of a woman from Eriskay spinning with a dealgan and distaff (1890s). And yes, I was wearing Pyjama trousers last night 🤪

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A 19th century Bulgarian distaff with white lambswool wrapped round it. It is resting on my brown leather couch. The wrap is red in colour.

Bulgarian distaff (19th century made) all floofed up with lambswool 🙂 I've just started a spinning related TikTok profile and will be posting a link once it's up and running 😁
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A plastic bag containing 500 grams of off white lambswool. It's rests on my brown leather sofa.

Close up of the lambswool, with myself holding some of it in my left hand.

Absolutely lush lambswool bought from World of Wool. It is so soft and squishy 😍 The item description said it would contain VM, but upon inspection it has absolutely none, which is a bonus! Doesn't say the breed unfortunately lol
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Just a wee example of me spinning with a distaff and spindle. It's a short clip, but it gives you an idea of how it's done. I don't claim to be perfect or professional btw. #spinsky #spinningwool #spinningwheel #dropspindlespinning #dropspindle #medievalspinning #suspendedspindlespinning

My three support spindles resting upon my tartan bed cover. The two left are wound up with off white wool that has been spun. The support spindle on the right is spun up with brown Icelandic wool.

Spinning up some wool before New Year, as according to Lowland (Scottish) legend, the Gyre-Carlin (the Lowland Cailleach or Hag spirit) will steal your unspun work if you fail to finish it. So I better hurry up 🤪
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A spindle wound thick, if not entirely full, of a 2-ply Wensleydale/alpaca mix.

The same mix wound nicely onto my niddy-noddy - an even spin, slender gauge.

It's a while since I posted any spinning, so here we are! This is a ply-up of lots of ends I had on various spindles and I'm really quite pleased with it. #yarnsky #dropspindlespinning #spinsky

My collection of 12 hand spindles for spinning wool. Many of them are used for support spindle spinning, whilst the others are for suspended spindle spinning. They are all resting on my brown, leather chair with a light brown pillow supporting them.

A close up of my spindle collection. They are resting on my grey coloured carpet.

You can never have too much spindles haha 😄. I spin support and suspended (I only use my drop spindle for plying).

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So here's the Jacob's I'd prepped so far spun up (3 eps of Alien Earth) - tried to let it be a thicker gauge than I usually spin, but kept forgetting. It's not the most even but it has a lovely halo. Going to prep some more now...

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A wooden niddy-noddy wound with a good weight of dropspun two-ply creamish white Wensleydale yarn.

A closer look at the Wensleydale yarn on the niddy-noddy - despite the pace with which I spun it, it's come out reasonably even with a fairly consistent twist. A couple of little bobbles but overall I'm very pleased with it!

The Wensleydale yarn I dropspun earlier this year has now been piled and wound! It's super soft and I'm really pleased with it, although now I'm not entirely sure what to do with it...

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A slightly-wound dropspindle in my hand, resting on a lovely soft colourful stripey IKEA blanket. A stack of poorly-rolled creamy Suffolk fleece rolags are falling into view from the right-hand side of the photo.

Morning #tourdefleece people! How goes it? Hoping to get a fair bit done today, trying to maintain my pace and just get through the prepped Suffolk asap. #dropspindlespinning #yarnsky #dropspinning

A drop spindle spun with a good amount of off-white Suffolk yarn, with plenty of room for more!

Day 1 of #tourdefleece - surprisingly good innings for the spinning! This has been a lovely easy spin so far... #dropspindlespinning #spinsky

A picked cloud of off-white Suffolk fleece above some fairly scrappily-carded rolags of the same.

Suffolk fleece picked and prepped for the start of #tourdefleece tomorrow! It's lovely and bouncy, even if it is a bit squashed from being wrapped up away from moths - feels like it will spin up pretty quickly with plenty of grip. #dropspindlespinning #spinsky

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Day 88- a little more spinning on the drop spindle today #spinning #dropspindlespinning