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How can seperate the cotton seeds from that soft cotton seperate

So very interesting! I just got an antique great wheel and now I'd like to find a wheel boy to add to my spinning collection... and possibly use, since I'm at 5'4" 😊

What am I doing wrong when the twisted yarn starts knotting up? Love your site, just found it. Thank you!

Loving this so much with the great wheel spinning, the cannons going off in the background, and the lovely music giving the soundtrack!

Thank you! Thank you!

Excellent

I’m so delighted to be seeing new videos from you. I can watch and listen to you all day, you have such a gentle manner and “visit” in such a natural way. 💖 Cindi-Rae Norejko

Thank you for the wonderful lesson - your videos have been so helpful in teaching me how to spin on my great wheel

Fantastic! Thank you so much for all your great wheel videos.

I'm watching this series of three again too.

Watching this one again!

Great video! Very helpful. I just got my first walking wheel and my drive band kept slipping off. Thank you for educating me!!

Yes- tips that I haven't seen on other videos! Thank You :)

Thank you, I just purchased my first CPW and have yet to use it!

Appreciate the "drop and wind on" demo versus over-the-head triangle! As an Occupational Therapist, this is much more ergonomic and so much healthier for the shoulder! Thank you!

Great idea - have 3 great wheels that could use an upgrade like this - thanks!

What if you need to ply counter clockwise?

I’m loving your tips for great wheel spinning! I have a beautiful old wheel that Spiritwood has repaired for me. Now I am practicing a little every day and your information is so very helpful. Thank you!

Very interesting, again! I've been admiring and reading a bit about great wheels for some time now, but from a distance (Netherlands..) No great wheels available here, sadly. So interesting to know why there are different heights and styles. It didn't cross my mind that they were designed especially to spin cotton or wool. Which is logical if you think about it 🙂

Interesting! Never heard of a Wheel Boy. If it were meant for an elderly person so she could sit on a chair she would still have to get up to walk to the wheel to wind the yarn on the spindle etc.. Or am I forgetting something?

Very interesting! Thanks!

Am a docent at a small town's historical museum. We were gifted a Great Wheel. While in college (art major) I did lots of 4-shed weaving...the spinners were grad students and we did not learn to spin... SO: I needed exactly what you have shown here so that I can somewhat generally explain the spinning process... Visitors WILL ASK ! (and yes, I will recheck the parts and see if I can demo some spinning. There is a spindle there...but am away from the wheel so I don't recall whether a mother-of-all and maidens are there...)

Just wow!

Such lovely wheels. I would love to have a walking wheel someday!

Thank you for the tour, Val. It's very helpful to see these in action.

My original had copper lining. I need to replace. Thanks for the video!

I love that we can see your face reflected in the sheet of brass as you talk.

Good job Valerie! Where did you find the long DPNs? I had considered learning to knit with a belt at some point in time, but I couldn't find long DPNs. Unsupported flicking is just too demanding for my carpal tunnel. Over time, I taught myself to knit continental instead, and it works really well for me for now, but it is not ideal for stranded knitting. I would love to try knitting with a belt, so I could hold my strand in each hand.

I see people bending to the right or stooping as they turn the wheel to keep their hand on the same spoke. It is no great feat of coordination to simply move your right hand to another spoke without any break in the rotation of the wheel. A stick has to be gripped but it only takes a relaxed, open hand to push a spoke and a gentle grasp to stop the rotation. In more than forty years of spinning, I never had any use for a stick.

I used leather. I cut down a .44-40 brass case and drilled out the primer pocket then I wrapped the spindle shaft with acrylic yarn and pushed it into the brass case and oiled the yarn. On my wheel the spindle is smaller diameter and shorter (Probably a cotton spindle) and this improvised bearing on the nigh side works well.

I found a great wheel at a local Restore. How would I go about researching the history behind it? Do you recommend any particular resources for researching? I can tell it’s really old, possibly 1800s but I don’t know how to tell the age of it.

What a beauty.❤

Great idea.❤

Great idea.❤

Thanks for sharing your year. Lovely ❤.

Thank you ❤. This helps a lot.

Metal skewers? Cool! I made a tensioner lazy Kate from an old wooden drawer and some stainless steel rods and white 7/8c rubber bumpers for stoppers.

Very interesting

Thank you for calling this a Quebec wheel. In Canada Quebec is a beautifully distinct province . It’s almost incorrect that these wheels got named CPWs when they more rightly should have been QPWs

This is great information. Someone on a Facebook group I am on posted photos of a CPW with a misaligned wheel. The two posts look are almost identical, and at first I thought maybe one of them was a replacement part, but then both wheel posts were shimmed and glued, so it totally makes sense that if they are not positioned properly, the posts would sit incorrectly and skew the position of the wheel. Thank you so much, I will relay the info.

Lovely wheel spokes!

Clever fix.

Looks like you had a prolific year! Merry Christmas and Happy new year

I was just gifted a great wheel that needs some TLC. I am trying to find a great wheel group on Facebook and I’m striking out. Does the one you refer to in this video no longer exist?

Enjoyed this!

What a busy year! Thanks for sharing it with us.

Niiiiiiice!

Wow Val, those do purr! Lovely

Great idea, but when you're doing living history - these ppl will disallow anything new - I took a great wheel I got out and used something from a hardware store that was just going to be temporary until I could do it right and it was pointed out to me - I really do think that some of these groups are shooting themselves in the foot with everything wanting to be so historically correct? Rather than really teach the public of what it is, how it was used so they can understand the way things were done........even like how old is your great wheel ? I can give you an idea, but I have no dates????? Really????

If you find a bushing that has an inside diameter too small you can take a drill and drill it out to a larger opening. A drilled out dowel and cut to fit between the leathers might work fine too and a good soak for a few days in hot oil to impregnate the wood with oil for built in lubrication. Bone would work too. Bone is hollow so a small bone could be cleaned out and used or just make a wedge with a curved space to hold the shaft while under tension. Lots of things can be used for this purpose.