{"id":697,"date":"2018-01-07T13:22:18","date_gmt":"2018-01-07T12:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/waltin.se\/josefinwaltinspinner\/?p=697"},"modified":"2018-01-17T15:18:28","modified_gmt":"2018-01-17T14:18:28","slug":"ancient-spinning-technique-in-ecuador","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/waltin.se\/josefinwaltinspinner\/ancient-spinning-technique-in-ecuador\/","title":{"rendered":"Ancient spinning technique in Ecuador"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First of all: Happy St Distaff&#8217;s day! I&#8217;m celebrating with some distaff spinning of my own and watching spinning videos.<\/p>\n<p>I found a couple of inspiring clips of some beautiful and very old distaff spinning technique in Ecuador. The spindle is held almost horizontally in the outer end and the thread goes over the spindle tip closest to the distaff. 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