Spinning
Description, photographs and transcriptions of tape-recordings,
e.g. Christie MacArthur (b. Milan 1888, mother of Donald and Isobel)
used the hand-spindle to twist together two strands of spun wool:
I did it myself... My mother would be busy spinning and I'd be twisting
it for her-we used the spindle... There'd be two businesses going
on together. It's just a stick, and you wound it around the big
end. And you could have it around the loom. And then you twist it...
And you'd wind that on, and start all over again... We had a pan
or something to put it in-if not, just let them run, and see that
the cat wouldn't get after them!
Wooden wool-winder, crois-iarna [photographed]
Ruth Nicolson:
Then they would wind the wool into hanks on the crois-iarna. The
person winding could count the turns if they wished to have hanks
of standard measurement, usually to the nearest ounce.
See Oatmeal and the Catechism
(index) and The Last Stronghold.
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