Navajo Spindling

Spinning in Public Day: since I *always* spin in public, I thought I'd do something more obtrusive; since it was also Talk Like a Pirate Day, I figured the brand-new, weapons-grade steel-tipped Navajo spindle would do it.

If you don't like the way I do this, for goodness' sake, post your own Navajo spindle video! Seriously, there's nothing. Just "Navajo Plying with a Spindle", maybe a few seconds of spinning in a weaving video.

Oddly enough, *nobody* in New York ever saw their Navajo grandmother spinning...

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Howto & Style

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• navajo
• spinning
• spindle

[laughinglark]

Thank you for posting this. I now have a spindle made by Henry Lee Dedman from Weaving in Beauty. I still have to try it out. Your video really helped sell me on Navajo spindles. I have three feed bags of lovely, but smelly wool to scour, but once it gets done, my new spindle will be busy. :)

[sergeantmajorette]

@laughinglark

I have a Dedman too, and I'm getting a Snipes at SOAR. DY Begay will be teaching, and it's very rare for Navajo teachers to come east!

[MichiganSpinning]

I love this video! Is that a Roosterick Spindle? I think I see a hint of woodburning on the whorl and they are the only ones I know with a steel tip.

[sergeantmajorette]

@MichiganSpinning

Yep, it's a Roosterrick! Great for concrete!

[Quannah07]

That's sad?

Nobody!! But apples and "number!""

Blind landlords shaffing with the lost winds!!!

Whiffeding with alien air!!!

Dine!!!!

Awake up!!!

[sergeantmajorette]

Dine in NYC?

Put yer hands up!

[wachs13]

Good vid. I just started on a high whorl drop spindle. Nice to see something diffrent.