An instructional video on spinning flax fibers using a handheld distaff, featuring traditional medieval tools and methods for historical fiber preparation and spinning. The oil rustlers of West ...

Object Details maker unknown Description Small foot-powered flax spinning wheel complete with distaff, 19th century. Owned by Mrs. Anne Ferguson Taylor, of Galena, Kent County, Maryland, grandmother ...

Due to their size and the presence of whorls, the pebbles were likely used as an early version of a spinning wheel to gather up fibers like wool or flax and transform it into yarn. The study’s authors ...

Then they asked Yonit Kristal, a traditional craftsperson, to try spinning flax with them. “She was really surprised that they worked, because they weren’t perfectly round,” says Yashuv.

With skill and patience Crystal succeed in spinning flax and wool. The study’s experimental spindles and whorls, the 3D scans of the pebbles and their negative perforations.

Spinning methods. (a) Manual thigh-spinning [64]; (b) Spindle-and-whorl “supported spinning” ... enabling it to efficiently gather up fibers such as wool or flax and spin them into yarn. ...

At one time, 18,000 acres of flax were grown in Oregon, with 14 processing mills, spinning and weaving throughout the Willamette Valley. They sold fiber straight to the war efforts, but those ...

12,000-year-old stones may be very early evidence of wheel-like technology Stones were likely used by early human cultures as spindle whorls to turn fibers into yarn ...

The city of Belfast was once known as 'Linenopolis' with the production and spinning of flax becoming a major industry all across Ireland during the 19th century.