The Ashford spinning wheel is a relatively recent addition at Eileen Douglas's Benambra house and its whisper is only occasionally interrupted by the pop of the 100-year-old slow combustion stove in ...

YAKIMA, Wash. -- At 94, Wallace Van Eaton can still spin a good yarn. In all senses. Yes, he can tell a great anecdote. Better than that, he can actually spin wool into yarn. Best of all, he makes the ...

Waltin (Knit (Spin) Sweden!) delivers an informative guide to spinning wool from start to finish. First, she discusses wool characteristics of various sheep breeds, pointing out that the Gute sheep’s ...

PORT HADLOCK — Dean Hyden will demonstrate the use of a spinning wheel to spin wool from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Wednesday. The free, drop-in demonstration is in the Humphrey Room at the Jefferson County ...

[glacialwanderer], who you may remember from his CNC machine build, recently completed an electric spinning wheel. Spinning wheels are used by knitters to turn raw sheep’s wool into yarn. He went ...

I’m from North Carolina. My husband and I travelled here on holiday in the early 1990s. He got a chance to work here, so we lived here for a year and we made friends and loved it. I took early ...

Nora Rubinstein loves to spin. She also loves a mystery and a challenge. The experience of taking raw fluffy wool and spinning and twisting it into yarn has been an anchor of her life for more than 35 ...

19th century wool wheel, varnished. Medium brown. The maiden head is not original to the wheel. The date 1833, and the letters "HD" are on the wheel. Overall the wheel is in good condition. Two wooden ...