Sue Macniven of Handspun Exotics shows a saxony wheel, its various parts and how to adjust a scotch tension. In depth look at how to work out the ratios.
Bless your heart that will be wonderful! I have no income and no hope of receiving anything that might even look like money so if you are selling those videos I will not be able to take advantage but it sure is wonderful to know that someone out there cares enough for the craft to keep it alive in the way of the old timers way such as you are doing it! God bless you and yours and thank you for returning a reply so quickly. Yours in sprit Tony Tampa bay Florida
This 12-year-old video explains everything! I've always wanted to know what all the parts of a spinning wheel do - it looks so complicated. I searched RUclips for "how a spinning wheel works" and got a few suggestions, none of which explained how spinning wheels actually work. Now I want this woman to make videos explaining all of life's mysteries!
Thank you for your kind words. You may have already found my other videos but the one on my website is a download for which I charge £15.00 It is pretty comprehensive for short draw worsted spinning and it covers from washing fleece, right through to plying and sampling but of course you can use tops/roving or carded rolags too for this technique. it is 1 hour 20 minutes.
Ignore anonymous rudeness. I appreciate what I've learned from this. I really had no idea what a spinning wheel did- I've only seen them in Sleeping Beauty, and Aurora certainly never actually USED one! Thanks again for teaching us.
Hi Tony, glad you like the video, I am planning to make a series of videos for commercial sale, these will include pretty much everything I can think of so that even the most basic beginner to the advanced can get something from them, I will post details on here when done, but won't be at least until September ish I am thinking. Will try in the meantime to get pics of flyers up.
Kudos! Finally someone has made a video of the spinning wheel that makes since! I have had a burger of a time trying to get my big fat head around that flyer! Do you have any video on the flyer assembly construction and the Mother of all assembly (Up close and in great detail) Please? Blessings to you and yours for this New Year Tony Tampa Bay Florida
Glad it helped you, Ratios only really matter in that it helps you not work too hard, when you find that you are having to wait while the twist develops before re drafting then try a faster ratio. I have had folks on workshops before who thought that the ratio grooves were fancy turning made to make the wheel look pretty!
Of course this video is out there for free, it does not pretend to be of a quality to charge good money for. However you have always got the option of doing a GOOD one yourself and putting it up there. Thank you for your comments, some of them will be used to make my next one better.
Thank you so much. I needed this so much. I'm having a very hard time with my wheel and knowing what is controling what. I surely need to get a stretchy band for my main wheel but now I know how to adjust the spin and ratio and even figure OUT the ratio! Thank you so very much.
The yarn is stored on a bobbin which is attached to the wheel, for every revolution of the wheel you get whatever the ratio set up gives you in twist, so for a given length of wire on a 5:1 ratio say you would get 5 twists. It is possible to ply many different threads together.
Hi Amy, I use carders which are curved backed, the teeth should be medium weight, ie not cotton carders and I prefer ones which do not have the teeth obviously paired, they should have some flexibility into the backing cloth. if this makes sense. Ashfords are ok, I get mine from P&M Woolcraft in the UK, I know they do mail order.For combs I like the Louet Mini combs with double rows of teeth, though they are expensive and not suited to heavier/longer wools such as Lincoln, Wensleydale etc.
Thnk you all for your feedback, I have been running spinning workshops here in Scotland at our B&B for the past 2 weeks and it is nice to see people go away with a skein of wool which is of good quality from the start, it is so much easier to see how things work in person than to read a book which is often lacking important though seemingly minor things like adjusting bobbin tension. If anyone would like to organise a tour for me to come to USA ot Canada, would be most interested. Regards Sue
Hi Martha, I am so glad you are finding the videos useful, I am hoping to do another next week so will include something about overspun yarn. In the meantime, make sure that you are actually letting the yarn go onto the bobbin, if you keep holding onto the yarn once the twist has run in it will just keep building up. Regards Sue
Sue, My grandmother has a big wheel and I thought it would be cool to sell a video on how they worked. But, apparently, its all been done for free elsewhere. Also, I wanted to know in case I had to a make a large Irish sweater by hand for date night.
I am so glad you are all enjoying the videos please do link to them in your blogs and FB also check out this page too facebook.com/pages/Choosing-Natures-Way/752373841499558?ref=hl
Hi Andrew, regardless of how accurate the spinner, 20K is a mammoth amount of yarn bearing in mind that I work on the basis of an hour an oz from raw wool to finished yarn, even at minimum wage that would be hugely expensive. Try Texere yarns, they have masses of weaving yarns.
I am so sorry you feel so outraged at my poor quality video, I make it clear in the video which is the main wheel and which is the flier and though my hand is not often in the shot it does make it quite clear which I am talking about. The description of the footman is pretty accurate I would say and yes if you do not understand English then there could be a problem in understanding what I am talking about. The stretchy band unfortunately doesnt show well because it is clear.
I was wondering. How accurate and consistent is a spinning wheel? I know the human controlling it has alot of responsibility for that, but assuming they are competent. I was thinking about weaving cloth of a specific kind. The grist of the yarn would essentially have to be consistently 18/2nm. And ALOT of it. Probably at least 20Kg. I dont have the first clue about spinning wheels. Would I be better off just buying yarn from an industrial scale mill?
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Bless your heart that will be wonderful! I have no income and no hope of receiving anything that might even look like money so if you are selling those videos I will not be able to take advantage but it sure is wonderful to know that someone out there cares enough for the craft to keep it alive in the way of the old timers way such as you are doing it! God bless you and yours and thank you for returning a reply so quickly.
Yours in sprit
Tony
Tampa bay Florida
This 12-year-old video explains everything! I've always wanted to know what all the parts of a spinning wheel do - it looks so complicated. I searched RUclips for "how a spinning wheel works" and got a few suggestions, none of which explained how spinning wheels actually work. Now I want this woman to make videos explaining all of life's mysteries!
Thank you for your kind words. You may have already found my other videos but the one on my website is a download for which I charge £15.00 It is pretty comprehensive for short draw worsted spinning and it covers from washing fleece, right through to plying and sampling but of course you can use tops/roving or carded rolags too for this technique. it is 1 hour 20 minutes.
Ignore anonymous rudeness. I appreciate what I've learned from this. I really had no idea what a spinning wheel did- I've only seen them in Sleeping Beauty, and Aurora certainly never actually USED one! Thanks again for teaching us.
Hi Tony, glad you like the video, I am planning to make a series of videos for commercial sale, these will include pretty much everything I can think of so that even the most basic beginner to the advanced can get something from them, I will post details on here when done, but won't be at least until September ish I am thinking. Will try in the meantime to get pics of flyers up.
Kudos! Finally someone has made a video of the spinning wheel that makes since! I have had a burger of a time trying to get my big fat head around that flyer! Do you have any video on the flyer assembly construction and the Mother of all assembly (Up close and in great detail) Please?
Blessings to you and yours for this New Year
Tony
Tampa Bay Florida
I'm grateful to you for taking the time to create this video. Now I feel I can identify the parts of a wheel and how they work together!
Amazing video! Best one I've seen on RUclips so far! Thank you!
Thanks for addressing tension. So many demos don't and, being new to spinning, your video was very helpful.
Glad it helped you, Ratios only really matter in that it helps you not work too hard, when you find that you are having to wait while the twist develops before re drafting then try a faster ratio. I have had folks on workshops before who thought that the ratio grooves were fancy turning made to make the wheel look pretty!
I have to look through videos of this kind for a school project, and I see that this video is 10 years old in a week or two, cool!
Thanks!!! It helped me a lot with my history homework!!!!!!!!!
Of course this video is out there for free, it does not pretend to be of a quality to charge good money for. However you have always got the option of doing a GOOD one yourself and putting it up there. Thank you for your comments, some of them will be used to make my next one better.
Thank you so much. I needed this so much. I'm having a very hard time with my wheel and knowing what is controling what. I surely need to get a stretchy band for my main wheel but now I know how to adjust the spin and ratio and even figure OUT the ratio! Thank you so very much.
I am glad you found it helpful, it is one of the things that can really screw up your spinning and make you fight the wheel instead of controlling it.
The yarn is stored on a bobbin which is attached to the wheel, for every revolution of the wheel you get whatever the ratio set up gives you in twist, so for a given length of wire on a 5:1 ratio say you would get 5 twists. It is possible to ply many different threads together.
very interesting done in easy to follow steps thanks
Glad you like it
Thank you for your lovely comments, glad they have been of help
Hi Amy,
I use carders which are curved backed, the teeth should be medium weight, ie not cotton carders and I prefer ones which do not have the teeth obviously paired, they should have some flexibility into the backing cloth. if this makes sense. Ashfords are ok, I get mine from P&M Woolcraft in the UK, I know they do mail order.For combs I like the Louet Mini combs with double rows of teeth, though they are expensive and not suited to heavier/longer wools such as Lincoln, Wensleydale etc.
I am glad you like them, I will try to do some more this year
Thnk you all for your feedback, I have been running spinning workshops here in Scotland at our B&B for the past 2 weeks and it is nice to see people go away with a skein of wool which is of good quality from the start, it is so much easier to see how things work in person than to read a book which is often lacking important though seemingly minor things like adjusting bobbin tension.
If anyone would like to organise a tour for me to come to USA ot Canada, would be most interested.
Regards
Sue
Hi Martha,
I am so glad you are finding the videos useful, I am hoping to do another next week so will include something about overspun yarn. In the meantime, make sure that you are actually letting the yarn go onto the bobbin, if you keep holding onto the yarn once the twist has run in it will just keep building up.
Regards
Sue
Thank you for the lesson!
Sue,
My grandmother has a big wheel and I thought it would be cool to sell a video on how they worked. But, apparently, its all been done for free elsewhere. Also, I wanted to know in case I had to a make a large Irish sweater by hand for date night.
Thanks! Helpful!
thank you so much.. wounderful video.....
I am so glad you are all enjoying the videos please do link to them in your blogs and FB also check out this page too facebook.com/pages/Choosing-Natures-Way/752373841499558?ref=hl
HELP - I just got a Jensen spinning wheel and have no idea of how to put it together or how to even use it - this is going to be an adventure
You are welcome
What make of wheel is this. It's very beautiful
Hi Andrew, regardless of how accurate the spinner, 20K is a mammoth amount of yarn bearing in mind that I work on the basis of an hour an oz from raw wool to finished yarn, even at minimum wage that would be hugely expensive. Try Texere yarns, they have masses of weaving yarns.
I am so sorry you feel so outraged at my poor quality video, I make it clear in the video which is the main wheel and which is the flier and though my hand is not often in the shot it does make it quite clear which I am talking about. The description of the footman is pretty accurate I would say and yes if you do not understand English then there could be a problem in understanding what I am talking about. The stretchy band unfortunately doesnt show well because it is clear.
Yeah i figured as much. Thanks.
I was wondering. How accurate and consistent is a spinning wheel? I know the human controlling it has alot of responsibility for that, but assuming they are competent.
I was thinking about weaving cloth of a specific kind. The grist of the yarn would essentially have to be consistently 18/2nm. And ALOT of it. Probably at least 20Kg.
I dont have the first clue about spinning wheels.
Would I be better off just buying yarn from an industrial scale mill?
sorry don't understand, what do you mean?
AUDIO!!!!!
Ruthless Cardigan This is from 2008. Audio wasn't always perfect. Calm down.