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I started looking for small spinning wheels that people have made by themselves or have had made by local carpenters or other craftsmen. I | I started looking for small spinning wheels that people have made by themselves or have had made by local carpenters or other craftsmen. I found a lot of models. The spinning wheel in the first picture is the Asford one I tried at school and which started all this. My absolute favorite is the one called pumpkin. A 91-year-old carpenter made it for the lady hosting the blog i found it from based on her needs and general requirements for a spinning wheel. It measures only 17 inches and is extremely adorable. It isn't however not very portable, since you can't take it apart. It's a solid piece. And what i wan't from my s.w. design is the same level of compact design with the capability to take it a part to make it really easy to take with me. | ||
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File:kathryn-prototype1.jpg|''<span style="color:#008080">Gaskell spinning wheel, Kathryn</span>'' | File:kathryn-prototype1.jpg|''<span style="color:#008080">Gaskell spinning wheel, Kathryn</span>'' | ||
File:101_2886.jpg|''<span style="color:#008080">Pumpkin</span>'' | File:101_2886.jpg|''<span style="color:#008080">Pumpkin</span>'' | ||
File:9498d08d0bd8fd414b1f13a5cf1d826d.jpg|''<span style="color:#008080">Spinning wheel by SpinOlution</span>'' | |||
File:afdaf03c3743729b0c70830bf5cfb1f7.jpg|''<span style="color:#008080">Pic from Pinterest, didn't have a source</span>'' | |||
File:0b210af45d8b7c1583246653e9b011db.jpg|''<span style="color:#008080">Pic from Pinterest, didn't have better source than it's from Etsy</span>'' | |||
File:4c455c3f9c001e0c5f0ac9ae23a1a202.jpg|''<span style="color:#008080">Spinning Wheel by Woolthing</span>'' | |||
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Revision as of 17:19, 25 January 2016
Portable Spinning wheel
The need
Last fall semester we had a small course on spinning in my school and I absolutely fell in love with it. We started out with a spindle and advanced to a spinning wheel when we had understood the principle of spinning. I spun with a traditional spinning wheel and with a more modern upright spinning wheel. I preferred the upright version so my teacher brought me a travel spinning wheel from an other department so that i could try that out too. It was an Ashford model and relatively small and handy to take to go so I started googling the prices.That was a mistake, I almost fell from my chair. The Asford's models are really expensive and there are not so many global or local manufacturers that make spinning wheels let alone travel ones. I got an old spinning wheel from my mother but the problem with those are that they're really big and hardly not portable. A spindle is of course easy to take along, but I would really like to have a proper spinning wheel that's just as easy to grab on the go.
The Inspiration
I started looking for small spinning wheels that people have made by themselves or have had made by local carpenters or other craftsmen. I found a lot of models. The spinning wheel in the first picture is the Asford one I tried at school and which started all this. My absolute favorite is the one called pumpkin. A 91-year-old carpenter made it for the lady hosting the blog i found it from based on her needs and general requirements for a spinning wheel. It measures only 17 inches and is extremely adorable. It isn't however not very portable, since you can't take it apart. It's a solid piece. And what i wan't from my s.w. design is the same level of compact design with the capability to take it a part to make it really easy to take with me.
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Asford Spinnig wheel -
Gaskell spinning wheel, Kathryn -
Pumpkin -
Spinning wheel by SpinOlution -
Pic from Pinterest, didn't have a source -
Pic from Pinterest, didn't have better source than it's from Etsy -
Spinning Wheel by Woolthing
