Some weeks ago I bought a spindle stick + whorl from pallia.net to try #spinning with a more european medieval technique (as opposed to the american one that I had learned from “the internet”).

I think I'd prefer to have a notch on the stick, but I didn't want to ruin the one I've bought, so I decided to carve one of the ones I had (made from a dowel) to resemble the shape, and added the notch to this latter one.

And then of course I really want to make my own whorls, but I still don't have a way to fire clay, so I had to limit myself to plastic (polymer clay), which is probably not a good choice for a number of reason, but should work for a whorl or two...

The cernit whorl weights about the same as the clay one, and is bigger, but not as bigger as I feared.