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Spinning instructions
Practice treadling, e.g. while reading a book, until your feet work
automatically.
Spinning: Plying:
Spinning:
Twisting the wool fibres to make a
single yarn.
Plying:
Joining 2 or more yarns together.
3 speed bobbin for
1. Thick / slow spinning
2. Medium / regular spinning
3. thin / fast spinning / plying
Make a knot in the start yarn and
lock it into the slot of the bobbin
shaft. Twist with your fingers a rough
yarn out of the wool and knot it to
that start yarn.
Spinning
Take the wool loose in your left hand. Pull a bit of wool out of your left hand
with the fingers of your right hand in the direction of the orifice, so far as the
fibre volume of the yarn requires. Then while treadling slowly and still
gripping the yarn move your right hand back towards your left and allow the
twist to develop. Then you can let it go through the orifice and it will be
wound up on the bobbin. Always keep thumb and finger closed when sliding
over the fibres. Adapt the speed of foot and hand working to get a good twist
of the thread.
Too little twist;
Brake
strap
on the flyer to
regulate the strength with
which the yarn is pulled in.
Too much twist;
Correct twist.
Fill the bobbin evenly by changing
the yarn from one hook to another.
