If you spin with a distaff of the type shown here, you can walk and spin (with a spindle) at the same time. Other types of distaffs are attached to stools on which the spinsters sit, or to the ...

Attendees can try spinning on a drop spindle or spinning wheel, watch demonstrations, and learn about the art form.” About a dozen spinners in Central Pennsylvania took part in WSIPD in front of ...

I even took a spindle to Wembley for the FA Cup semi final but it was a bit too windy! I’ve demonstrated spinning at street fairs and craft shows, and taken my wheel into my son’s school.

DROs don’t know the absolute position of the spindle, they know the relative position of it. The bottom line is that a DRO is just a fancier version of the graduated scales on the hand wheels.

An engraving showing how yarn spinning wheels were used in the home before ... Like the spinning jenny, it had multiple spindles for making threads and, like the water frame, it was powered ...

The hand-driven larger wheel spins the smaller one, which is in turn connected by a drive band to the detachable spindle in ...

Grinding The spindles are designed for use with a grinding wheel, for precision size and surface finishing ... such as computer drive testing, bearing spinning and friction tests, semiconductor ...

On a bus tour of China's wild west, they're having fun trying to get the giant instrument spinning ... giant spindle and, throwing her full weight into this act of devotion, keeps the wheel ...

Akin to a potter’s wheel in ceramics but in a horizontal ... a tool rest and engaged to carve shapes out of the spinning wood ...

But consistently stopping a 14-in. diamond wheel spinning at conventional speeds is a daunting engineering challenge. So Stihl reduced the working spindle speed of the TS440. “In order to reduce ...

Spinners & Artists,” took place October 27 — with an encore scheduled for the SOMA Artists Studio Tour on Nov. 3.

This portable wood chipper model includes a tow hitch, a drop stand, ATV-style locking wheels, and a vacuum kit ... branches and pulls them into the spinning blades. The chips shoot out of ...