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Spin-Span-Spun: Spinning Straw into Gold or Spinning on Traditional Spinning Wheels

$275.00

This workshop is geared to folks who are already familiar with spinning but want to improve their knowledge of traditional spinning techniques and care of traditional wheels. It is also open to folks who are interested in flax fiber preparation. We will be dressing flax fiber for spinning with traditional distaffs. This workshop is an opportunity to get your traditional wheel working.

Bring your wheel and we will go over maintenance, care, and repair of traditional low and great wheels. The goal of the workshop will be to get many traditional wheels in working condition as we can.

Saturday: Low wheels: care and repair of low wheels and spinning flax –We will have a few low wheels available for folks that do not have wheels of their own. We will hatchel flax and dress distaffs. If you have a distaff, bring it, if not we will make distaffs from ash saplings.

Sunday: Walking or Great Wheels:  care and repair of walking wheels and multiplying heads of all sorts. We will also have a few walking wheels with heads for you to try. We will be spinning both wool and cotton. Bring your wheel and fiber if you have some.

Workshop requirements: Previous spinning knowledge is preferred as we will not have enough time to be able to teach beginning spinning. But folks are welcome to join as observers if you have a wheel but don’t know how it works and want to get your wheel in good condition.

  • Duration: 2 Days

  • Dates: June 14th - 15th 2025

  • Includes:

    • Materials

    • FREE Historic Accommodation

  • Limited to: 30 Students

  • More: Workshop Information

All workshops begin at 9:30am on the first day of the program.

All participants must be 18+ years old.

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This workshop is geared to folks who are already familiar with spinning but want to improve their knowledge of traditional spinning techniques and care of traditional wheels. It is also open to folks who are interested in flax fiber preparation. We will be dressing flax fiber for spinning with traditional distaffs. This workshop is an opportunity to get your traditional wheel working.

Bring your wheel and we will go over maintenance, care, and repair of traditional low and great wheels. The goal of the workshop will be to get many traditional wheels in working condition as we can.

Saturday: Low wheels: care and repair of low wheels and spinning flax –We will have a few low wheels available for folks that do not have wheels of their own. We will hatchel flax and dress distaffs. If you have a distaff, bring it, if not we will make distaffs from ash saplings.

Sunday: Walking or Great Wheels:  care and repair of walking wheels and multiplying heads of all sorts. We will also have a few walking wheels with heads for you to try. We will be spinning both wool and cotton. Bring your wheel and fiber if you have some.

Workshop requirements: Previous spinning knowledge is preferred as we will not have enough time to be able to teach beginning spinning. But folks are welcome to join as observers if you have a wheel but don’t know how it works and want to get your wheel in good condition.

  • Duration: 2 Days

  • Dates: June 14th - 15th 2025

  • Includes:

    • Materials

    • FREE Historic Accommodation

  • Limited to: 30 Students

  • More: Workshop Information

All workshops begin at 9:30am on the first day of the program.

All participants must be 18+ years old.

This workshop is geared to folks who are already familiar with spinning but want to improve their knowledge of traditional spinning techniques and care of traditional wheels. It is also open to folks who are interested in flax fiber preparation. We will be dressing flax fiber for spinning with traditional distaffs. This workshop is an opportunity to get your traditional wheel working.

Bring your wheel and we will go over maintenance, care, and repair of traditional low and great wheels. The goal of the workshop will be to get many traditional wheels in working condition as we can.

Saturday: Low wheels: care and repair of low wheels and spinning flax –We will have a few low wheels available for folks that do not have wheels of their own. We will hatchel flax and dress distaffs. If you have a distaff, bring it, if not we will make distaffs from ash saplings.

Sunday: Walking or Great Wheels:  care and repair of walking wheels and multiplying heads of all sorts. We will also have a few walking wheels with heads for you to try. We will be spinning both wool and cotton. Bring your wheel and fiber if you have some.

Workshop requirements: Previous spinning knowledge is preferred as we will not have enough time to be able to teach beginning spinning. But folks are welcome to join as observers if you have a wheel but don’t know how it works and want to get your wheel in good condition.

  • Duration: 2 Days

  • Dates: June 14th - 15th 2025

  • Includes:

    • Materials

    • FREE Historic Accommodation

  • Limited to: 30 Students

  • More: Workshop Information

All workshops begin at 9:30am on the first day of the program.

All participants must be 18+ years old.


Instructors

Susan Rabbit Goody

Susan Rabbit Goody runs Thistle Hill Weavers, a small custom and commission textile mill reproducing historic textiles. Her work in the field of historic textiles has been a multi decade adventure. Her areas of concentration are the transition between hand and powered textile technology, and the place of hand produced textiles in the material culture of the 17th through 19th centuries. Coverlets, carpets, and everyday textiles in rural America are her areas of identification and dating expertise.


Historic Eastfield Foundation
P.O. Box 100, East Nassau, NY 12062

Historic Eastfield Foundation is a 501 (c) 3 organization

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