Spinning Wheel Photos.

I've been showing video snippets of different textile techniques at my sales table at fairs recently (not medieval fairs, obviously, but modern ones), and one of these snippets shows spinning on the Great Wheel. From the comments, this is one of the most interesting bits, if not by far the part that people like to see most - and it is very, very short, so it gets missed frequently.

Yesterday evening, we took advantage of the fair enough weather to shoot a longer sequence of me spinning at the wheel. The videos have made it to my computer by now, but haven't been checked and edited yet (that is something for next week). There were bonus photos, though - and here are some of them:

[caption id="attachment_2458" align="alignnone" width="640"] Spinning the yarn...


[caption id="attachment_2457" align="alignnone" width="640"] ... and winding it onto the spindle.


[caption id="attachment_2456" align="alignnone" width="600"] The cat, meanwhile, remained largely unimpressed. (She did check the rolags at one point, though.)