Spin like you’re Scottish

How to Use the Scottish whorl-less spindle for spinning woolen yarn. More at my blog: and Etsy shop: . These Gaelic Dealgans, Fadsadh and Fairsaids are remembered as plying spindles, but they were used in the past to spin woolen rolags from sheep raised in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland. They followed Scottish immigrants to the Eastern coast of Canada. There is one ’sighting’ in the eastern Appalachians as well where the Scots Irish settled starting
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