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<blockquote data-quote="sawtooth-9" data-source="post: 1575858" data-attributes="member: 21779"><p>A little background :</p><p>Many years ago ( too many ) I met a young lady who was busy knitting at a railway station in Hazlemere Surrey. Turns out that she had made her own spinning wheel from English beech and elm. It was a copy of her mother's antique wheel and was quite beautifully built. She had never done any woodwork before. After we were married, we had always planned to make wheels in Australia but life got in the way.</p><p>The spinning and knitting has continued.</p><p>The spinning is ultra lace weight and the knitting is done on very fine needles ( around 1.5 - 2.5mm ) and the knitting is mostly done double stranded ( twined knitting / Tvaandstickning - an old Swedish way of knitting ).</p><p>This style of knitting has its own issues, such as tightening/loosening the ply and tangling of the two strands. </p><p></p><p>So, over the past couple of years I have had a project of building some equipment suitable for very fine fibres, which is not available anywhere we can find.</p><p>Also decided to build a second spinning wheel and re-build the original antique wheel ( which we think was a Welsh flax wheel probably built around 1820 )</p><p></p><p>I will take some pics and post details of the building if there is any interest?</p><p> The workshop</p><p> The spinning wheels</p><p> The combined skein and ball winder</p><p> The whirling bowls</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="sawtooth-9, post: 1575858, member: 21779"] A little background : Many years ago ( too many ) I met a young lady who was busy knitting at a railway station in Hazlemere Surrey. Turns out that she had made her own spinning wheel from English beech and elm. It was a copy of her mother's antique wheel and was quite beautifully built. She had never done any woodwork before. After we were married, we had always planned to make wheels in Australia but life got in the way. The spinning and knitting has continued. The spinning is ultra lace weight and the knitting is done on very fine needles ( around 1.5 - 2.5mm ) and the knitting is mostly done double stranded ( twined knitting / Tvaandstickning - an old Swedish way of knitting ). This style of knitting has its own issues, such as tightening/loosening the ply and tangling of the two strands. So, over the past couple of years I have had a project of building some equipment suitable for very fine fibres, which is not available anywhere we can find. Also decided to build a second spinning wheel and re-build the original antique wheel ( which we think was a Welsh flax wheel probably built around 1820 ) I will take some pics and post details of the building if there is any interest? The workshop The spinning wheels The combined skein and ball winder The whirling bowls [/QUOTE]
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