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A couple  of weeks ago I had a distaff carving day!<\/p>\n

The lime avenue<\/h1>\n

We have a beautiful old lime-tree avenue just outside our house. Ever since someone told me that lime is a perfect carving wood I have longed to get out and make distaffs for in-hand spinning. It has been a cold un-spring so far and far too cold to carve outdoors. According to the weather report, it was supposed to be a little less cold a couple of weeks ago. I prepared to get out and saw the branches down on Saturday morning.<\/p>\n

Saturday came, and when I peeked out from behind the curtains, it was a sunny day. I was out the door at nine and got some low hanging branches. I had big plans to sit in the March sun and carve, but the sun got shy and hid behind the clouds, resulting in quite a cold carving session.<\/p>\n

Three distaffs<\/h1>\n

I made three distaffs for different purposes \u2013 one 30 cm hand distaff, one 100 cm belt distaff and one 120 cm floor distaff<\/a>. The lengths are just as I want them. The floor distaff may be a bit too short, though. Or perhaps I just have to get used to the floor distaff spinning technique.<\/p>\n

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Distaffs for belt, floor and hand.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The carving was wonderful \u2013 the bark just peeled off  like butter and it was a very nice feeling to carve in fresh wood from such a soft and carving friendly material. I managed to carve all three distaffs without any personal injuries (I did ruin the first hand distaff, though), just a cut in my thumb nail, you can see it in the featured image. Boy, they are practical. Nails, I mean.<\/p>\n

I did nothing fancy, I just followed the shape of the sticks and made a few notches at the top to hold the fiber better. There was a small branch at the bottom end of the hand distaff, which I took advantage of to make a more ergonomic handle.<\/p>\n

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A branch bump fits perfectly in my hand<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I carved and carved, made little embellishments and improved imperfections. I didn’t want to stop carving. Why would you want to let a raw, natural material out of your hand?<\/p>\n

Dressed for success<\/h1>\n

I have dressed the two longer distaffs with V\u00e4rmland wool<\/a> and given them a test run. They work very well. I will make another skein of the yarn I made in a winter video of in-hand spinning in medieval style. Blog post about the video here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Dressed floor distaff. Wool is from V\u00e4rmland sheep, spindle from NiddyNoddyUK<\/a> and whorl from Pallia<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I like that the distaffs are organically shaped and the fact that I have to adapt myself to the natural shape of the distaffs. They feel more alive that way.<\/p>\n

Happy crafting!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A couple  of weeks ago I had a distaff carving day! The lime avenue We have a beautiful old lime-tree avenue just outside our house. Ever since someone told me that lime is a perfect carving wood I have longed to get out and make distaffs for in-hand spinning. It has been a cold un-spring … <\/p>\n

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She is holding the spindle stick horizontally and spins it into a bulky and low-twist yarn by tossing and turning the spindle in her hand. She has arranged the fiber beautifully on the distaff, there must\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Spinning techniques"","block_context":{"text":"Spinning techniques","link":"https:\/\/waltin.se\/josefinwaltinspinner\/category\/spinning-techniques\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/waltin.se\/josefinwaltinspinner\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Sk%C3%A4rmavbild-2017-12-22-kl.-16.57.15.png?fit=962%2C640&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/waltin.se\/josefinwaltinspinner\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Sk%C3%A4rmavbild-2017-12-22-kl.-16.57.15.png?fit=962%2C640&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/waltin.se\/josefinwaltinspinner\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Sk%C3%A4rmavbild-2017-12-22-kl.-16.57.15.png?fit=962%2C640&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/waltin.se\/josefinwaltinspinner\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Sk%C3%A4rmavbild-2017-12-22-kl.-16.57.15.png?fit=962%2C640&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":697,"url":"https:\/\/waltin.se\/josefinwaltinspinner\/ancient-spinning-technique-in-ecuador\/","url_meta":{"origin":1217,"position":5},"title":"Ancient spinning technique in Ecuador","author":"Josefin Waltin","date":"January 7, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"First of all: Happy St Distaff's day! I'm celebrating with some distaff spinning of my own and watching spinning videos. I found a couple of inspiring clips of some beautiful and very old distaff spinning technique in Ecuador. 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