An instructional video on spinning flax fibers using a handheld distaff, featuring traditional medieval tools and methods for historical fiber preparation and spinning.

Processing stalks of hemp and flax into fiber that can be used for weaving or spinning is a relatively new craft for fiber ...

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Due to this structure and composition, the authors of the new paper deduce that the stones were likely used as spindle whorls — a hypothesis also supported by successfully spinning flax using ...

At one time, 18,000 acres of flax were grown in Oregon, with 14 processing mills, spinning and weaving throughout the Willamette Valley. They sold fiber straight to the war efforts, but those ...

Then they asked Yonit Kristal, a traditional craftsperson, to try spinning flax with them. “She was really surprised that they worked, because they weren’t perfectly round,” says Yashuv.