"Penguin Quill" spinning wheel
I was just given a Penguin Quill spinning wheel- a company that was in
Boulder, Colorado but appears to be defunct. Now that I think, I don't know how old the spinning wheel is but I can ask the wonderful woman who gave it to me. the wheel looks very simple- I looked for a similar image but couldnt' find one- but it's a treadle, with a large solid wood wheel and a very simple spindle and nothing else. She said it needed some repairs but it looks like it mainly needs oil for the attachment of the treadle bar to the wheel as it gets stuck. another thing I'm curious about is getting the string on. I can't make it fit around the big wheel so we can run it. do strings shrink while in storage? I don't actually know how long it's been unused. I plan to take it to our local spinning, etc store (shuttles, spindles and skeins, also in Boulder) tomorrow as they have been exceptionally helpful to me when I'm confused- as when they helped figure out my daughter's rigid Heddle loom. I imagine they'll help me but I just can't wait! I was so thrilled to get this- all of my kids are interested in spinning and so am I. I've had a friend teach the basics so I want to start going on it. :-) (and we went to the local Handweavers Guild sale yesterday so the timing couldn't be more conducive to fueling my eagerness.) -- Kate, http://systems.cs.colorado.edu/~koli...f-formula.html Mom to Ursula (10!), Sage (7), Benno (3.9) "Children are not the people of tomorrow, but people today. They are entitled to be taken seriously. They have a right to be treated by adults with tenderness and respect, as equals." - Janusz Korczak http://listserv.uts.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/parent-l -for great discussions on parenting and birth! |
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