Ancient Cotton Spinning Technique

Here you see Trinidad Catagua, Master spinner and weaver from Zapote, Manabí. She is spinning using the stationary tripod, or "rueca" which has a notch at the top of the distaff to catch and retain her stripe of cotton.
Trinidad has an efficient re-winding technique where she winds the thread spun at the tip of the spindle onto her fingers in a figure 8 motion, and then releases it, rewinding that thread onto the center part of the spindle.

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Education

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• hand
• spinning
• cotton
• ancient
• technique
• pre-Hispanic
• La
• Tolita
• Culture
• Esmeraldas
• Province
• coastal
• Ecuad

[spunstricken]

This is amazing!

[equadore1]

@spunstricken

Hi Spunstricken. If you would like to learn this technique, I am considering organizing a two week spinning and weaving workshop in Ecuador with this master artisan in July of 2012. Let me know if you or anyone else would be interested. Thanks

[gabricad28]

@equadore1

I will like to get some info on the workshop can you please let me know

[MadRiver119]

Leuk om te zien hoe deze manier van spinnen werkt.

Nice to see how this way of spinning works, I saw am articale in the spin off magazine from 2011. So i found it, now tri to do it myself. Gr ILse The Netherlands