Last night the second lovely half ounce of silk was finished. This time, it was spindles long draw and from the fold. Sara told me that she uses this method for silk. What a pleasure. It drafts so smoothly that the silk feels like it flows from your fingers onto the spindle. For me, spindling silk this way faster than spinning it on my wheel. It certainly is more enjoyable.
I plied it directly from the cops onto my Schacht using a lazy kate. There were no messy tangles. Very fast.
The pictures are what they are. Not perfectly sharp, but pretty good if you consider I hand held my little camera at 1/2 second using available light. After dark.
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6 responses to “plying from the cop”
You tease! No plied silk skein to oogle?? And are you going to do a Spinning-long-draw-from-a-spindle” tutorial soon? Pleeeeez? 🙂
The pictures looks fine to me. I’ve never had great luck spinning silk but you make it sound simple.
So simple and so beautiful! I really like the neutral color of the silk.
How do you finish the skein? Or do you just work with it directly?
Beautiful! Now let us see the yarn!
Hooray! It looks beautiful as singles, can’t wait to see the plied :).
Nice! I bet you felt like a spider.