Anita wrote:
I'm wanting a new challenge and thought to order the book "Spinning Silk on a Top Whorl Spindle" but am wondering if that book advises a particular weight of spindle? Can anyone tell me? TIA Anita in sunny, cool NH, USA
Don't know about advises from the book, but one can follow this simple rule: The less weight, the finer the yarn. I have two spindles (using them as bottom whirl) one with about 10g, the other is 18g of total weight and consider them to be perfect for spinning silk. The lighter one is only usable for spinning very fine wool to create some kind of sewing yarn (because of the natural curl of wool fiber and the less weight of the whorl) and therefore wonderful for spinning silk to a very fine yarn. The "bigger" one is my workhorse for yarn of 1-2mm diameter, good for wool and silk. But it can grow heavy and your yarn thicker when there's a certain amount of yardage "collected" on the spindle. With a bottom whorl spindle you can reduce the weight of the spindle while spinning with a support bowl.
As with all your tools: it must suit your handling and the yarn thickness you want to create. Saying this, you have to test some spindles with different weights to find the one you could get best results with less efford. Otherwise you won't like spinning silk - and it's too wonderful a material to ignore it.
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