This will help you spin finer yarn, drop your spindle less, and get the courage to try drop spinning for the first time if you have only used the park and draft method so far. Jillian Eve Posted ...

Demonstration of spinning yarn using two different spindles: top whorl and Turkish style drop spindles.

Learn how to turn wool roving into yarn! In this beginner workshop, participants will learn the park and draft method of spinning on a drop spindle and create their first skein of yarn.

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 ...

“We will be playing games such as corn hole, jacks, cat’s cradle, braiding a rag rug, weaving on a wooden loom, carding wool, spinning with a drop spindle, designing a patchwork with paper and ...

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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,” ...