![]() ![]() I’d like to say thanks to Carson Cooper for his excellent work publishing his guide to making spinning wheels and flyers, and the various plans of wheels that he puts out with excellent dimensioned drawings and fabrication instructions. Thankfully in woodworking there is always more than one way to get something done. Look around for plans a bit online and you come to the conclusion that the most difficult bit of the whole affair comes down to the wheel itself, making a large accurate circle.Īnd if, like me, you don’t own a lathe that can throw a 30″ circle, you need a work around. For me that meant figuring out how to make a spinning wheel. And then you get to the point where you want better quality yarn faster. You get interested in making some yarn, maybe get a few different hand spindles. ![]() Its hard to figure out where to start when it comes to making a spinning wheel. Spinning machinery, such as the spinning jenny and spinning frame, displaced the spinning wheel during the Industrial Revolution. Spinning wheels were first used in India, between 5 C.E. A spinning wheel is a device for spinning thread or yarn from natural or synthetic fibres. ![]()
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