Eventually, weighted discs known as whorls were added onto spindles to create drop spindles; whorls help the spinner use inertia to spin yarn faster. During the hand-spinning workshops, led by ...

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Coblentz, pictured, demonstrates how to use a drop spindle, standing among some of the museum’s artifacts, including an antique spinning wheel (pictured far left). (Ashley Bunton photo ATHENS ...

Coblentz uses the wooden tool to separate the fibrous part of the plant from its woody core before spinning it into thread using a drop spindle. “At some point, I might get a working spinning wheel,” ...

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