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Guest - Aislinn
Dyestuff Citizen Science.
09 October 2026
This is a great project. I look forward to the results. Thanks for letting us know.
Guest - Aislinn
Time for...
09 October 2026
Looks delicious!
Guest - Katrin
Sprang Discussion
18 September 2026
Hi Rachel, I have looked for more photos of you, but that was not very successful. I found a link on...
Guest - Beatrix
Sprang Discussion
15 September 2026
That lozenge pattern element is not a photograph, but a scan. So it should be to scale. But I pinned...
Guest - Katrin
Sprang Discussion
15 September 2026
I was not referring to Rachel's reconstruction (is the reconstruction you refer to the one photograp...
Spinning Output, part 2
Yesterday afternoon, I got to have half an hour of quality time with my favourite hand-spindle - one of my spindle sticks and a whorl that I bought somewhere, ages ago, and that remains my firm favourite for about any hand-spindle spinning tasks I get.
The results? Half an hour of concentrated spinning with spindle (and distaff, naturally, need I even mention that?) yielded 23.5 metres of worsted yarn.
Here's the two little balls of yarn side by side:
Next up: doing the same with my treadled spinning wheels...
The results? Half an hour of concentrated spinning with spindle (and distaff, naturally, need I even mention that?) yielded 23.5 metres of worsted yarn.
Here's the two little balls of yarn side by side:
Next up: doing the same with my treadled spinning wheels...
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