> So <thinking> if you're going to spin a ring shawl, like it was done in
> Shetland in the 1800s, shouldn't a fiber as close to the kind of Shetland
> fiber that was available back then, be used? And shouldn't it be spun on a
> drop spindle, rather than a spinning wheel?

I don't know that modern shetland fleece will be too much different than
that from the 1800's and since the spinning wheel arrived in Europe before
AD 1500, I'm sure they had at least a few on the islands by the 1800's.

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