Is is a slingshot? A dowsing rod? No, it is in fact a distaff.I also got another stick.
This one, with its handmolded lump of metal on the end, is a bottom-whorl drop spindle.This
is 50g of silk roving.Yes, I plan to start spinning. I am doomed.
Monday 14 July 2008
Doomed. No question about it.
There were a couple of other purchases back at Coronation that I didn't mention yet. First, this lovely forked stick. 
Is is a slingshot? A dowsing rod? No, it is in fact a distaff.
I also got another stick.
This one, with its handmolded lump of metal on the end, is a bottom-whorl drop spindle.
This
is 50g of silk roving.
Yes, I plan to start spinning. I am doomed.
Is is a slingshot? A dowsing rod? No, it is in fact a distaff.I also got another stick.
This one, with its handmolded lump of metal on the end, is a bottom-whorl drop spindle.This
is 50g of silk roving.Yes, I plan to start spinning. I am doomed.
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Yup. That's the beginning of the end! Next comes a spinning wheel, then it's back to the sheep farm. You remember sheep? Those stupid, smelly critters we had back in the US???
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