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I currently have a small Turkish spindle and a Daelgan spindle. In the pictures, I was spinning a blue faced Leicester and silk top. They are quite small, so they can only hold maybe 0.25 oz of fiber? So I don't use them that much (I have a spinning wheel). I want to get a support spindle to try out next.
I have not been spinning for a while now (too busy) but I have a wooden Turkish spindle and I have spun linen (flax), hemp, rose fibre, and spun and plied several different types of wool with it.
Currently in my basket is ramie nettle tops and am finding them a little slippery so I'm going to have to really make time for it instead of doing it while doing something else like I have done with wool in particular in the past.
wool, mostly. I use spindles for sampling and haven’t done large projects on them for many years. My favorite is a stick and toy wheel spindle, about 25 g. The shaft is pointed at both ends so it works either suspended or supported. I have many others, but have continued to use this one for decades.
A couple of old pictures, because my spinning is currently temporarily on hold
I spin with a medieval-style spindle + friction fit whorl combination, mostly wool (I have a distaff dressed with hemp, but it's going *extremely slowly*), often wool that I've combed myself.
left picture are my top whorl and bottom whorl spindle. I've spun wool on both, flax/linen on the top whorl spindle. I love the bottom whorl as I feel like I can get more yarn on it (and managing a the 'cob' is satisfying), tho the top whol is great for spinning fast since I get it to spin by rolling it along my leg (this is also great on my fingers if I spin a lot). Right picture is my turkish spindels. I haven't used the wooden (majacraft) one yet, but it has four sets of beams from 10 to 30 grams. The bigger ones should be good for plying two balls. The lighter weight is nice for spinning thin yarn. Spinning thin is what i do with the black/pink local 3D printed one too (it weighs 18grams). The top and bottom whorl ones I have are 60-70 grams, sometimes spinning a lot of thin yarn on it I'll start breaking from the weight hanging on it when I spin (or I just don't have enough twist).
there's also this supprted spindle which is pretty and I've used to spin soft thick yarn. And then this "Maya spinner" which is weird and fun and slow and doesn't serve much of a purpose
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I have not been spinning for a while now (too busy) but I have a wooden Turkish spindle and I have spun linen (flax), hemp, rose fibre, and spun and plied several different types of wool with it.
Currently in my basket is ramie nettle tops and am finding them a little slippery so I'm going to have to really make time for it instead of doing it while doing something else like I have done with wool in particular in the past.
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A couple of old pictures, because my spinning is currently temporarily on hold
I spin with a medieval-style spindle + friction fit whorl combination, mostly wool (I have a distaff dressed with hemp, but it's going *extremely slowly*), often wool that I've combed myself.
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Right picture is my turkish spindels. I haven't used the wooden (majacraft) one yet, but it has four sets of beams from 10 to 30 grams. The bigger ones should be good for plying two balls. The lighter weight is nice for spinning thin yarn. Spinning thin is what i do with the black/pink local 3D printed one too (it weighs 18grams). The top and bottom whorl ones I have are 60-70 grams, sometimes spinning a lot of thin yarn on it I'll start breaking from the weight hanging on it when I spin (or I just don't have enough twist).
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