Spin like you're Scottish
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- Опубліковано 10 тра 2016
- How to Use the Scottish whorl-less spindle for spinning woolen yarn. More at my blog: missingspindle.blogspot.com and Etsy shop: missingspindle.etsy.com. These Gaelic Dealgans, Fadsadh and Fairsaids are remembered as plying spindles, but they were used in the past to spin woolen rolags from sheep raised in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland. They followed Scottish immigrants to the Eastern coast of Canada. There is one 'sighting' in the eastern Appalachians as well where the Scots Irish settled starting late in the 1600/1700's. Bring History forward by giving this suspended spindle a whirl. Please note that I have a typo in the thank you's at the end of this video - Cape Breton is in Nova Scotia, not New Brunswick. Alas. And a very big big thank you for the videographer - Tammy Swales, photographer. We had to flee inside to her studio for this video when the weather turned very uncooperative.
I love your videos and blog! I've learned to spin because of them, and I'm enthralled by it, so thank you so much. You're an absolute wealth of knowledge, not to mention very funny! please keep making new videos!
It looks like it would be very easy to make. Much easier than all the others that I've seen! Thanks for the video!
Very educational, thank you! We do not appreciate how much work just living was for our ancestors!
One of my latest spindles is a dealgan so this is a very timely video. Thanks for posting!
Loved seeing this! I started spinning just a year and a half ago, but started with a wheel. Now I want to try the spindles! I'm on Cape Breton Island, so luckily I have other enablers here with me!
Got one of these drop spindles from the UK. It's a wonderful little tool! Transports easily and it's not fragile! When it drops you don't have to worry. Really fun to spin with!!!
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I'm just a casual observer who's played a lot of midevil games and am just curious about how things were ACTUALLY done back then. Fantastic video, well done. And lots of good information. 😄
Nice. Hi from Tourqia. Thanx
Good idea using the contrasting colored yarn. Makes visualizing simple!
Love your vids! I bought one of these today from Fox Mountain Spindles at the Nova Scotia Fibre Arts Festival. The one I bought from him was a reproduction made to spec of antique dealgan from Nova Scotia. I am stoked
So much sass in the intro, I love it.
Thanks Tatyana. It makes me happy to know I can help other spinners and I am glad I amused you in the process! Yes, more videos are coming.
More are done and coming soon. Next up, 'Spin like a Roman'. Then, 'Spin like a Jamestown Colonist'. And shooting 'Distaff Spinning on Vacation' this week because July 4th! and my Daughter! and Video camera! and Aging Mermaid!
YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Very cool! Just found your videos today so look forward to seeing them all!
Hi Lois, if you look for a turkish spindle have a look to our special versions : www.etsy.com/it/shop/ThreeDP?ref=seller-platform-mcnav§ion_id=21960131
Thank you
Yeah! Can't wait
Cool!
I've just found your videos and and as a new spinner I'm finding them very educational. I love history so that is an added bonus. Keep 'em coming.
How exciting to see more spin-like videos with my fave screen siren!
I love your dog's discrete appearances. Love spinning and your videos Thanks!
Thanks Lois. Nice teaching show. Love it. Learned enough to get me started in Dealgan spinning.
Thank you so much! I'm a spindle collector and I'd like to get one from every region in the world. Your videos are so helpful and fun!
Amazing. You are my new favorite lady. Great teaching and entertaining.
Thank you that was very interesting. I came across your video by accident and have never seen a dealgan before though I've been spindle spinning for a long time. I'd love to try one.
Thank you for videos. They are so good. I am surprised I haven't come across them sooner. Please keep making them. (More drop spindle ones please.) xox
Thank you so much for your videos!!!! I love them so much! I need to widdle myself a delijan now!!! Looks so intuitive!
I so want to try one !
Loved this video and would like to try spinning on a Dealgan. Hope I can find one. I especially loved the appearance of a sweet little dog. What I'm learning on now is a bottom whorl - just a beginner, but I am all ready hooked. Thank You.
I love your videos! So much information
I learned to do toys on my thumb to make a center pull ball
Thank goodness for this video! I bought a dealgan through Etsy, and I was very unhappy with how it spun. I thought it must be because of my German heritage. (ha ha) I was doing it all wrong. I just tried again, and I it went MUCH better! Thank you!!!
This was so fun to watch. Your hands are so practiced at what they do. I'm a baby spinner, and encountered Dealgans on a website, and when I looked 'em up I ended up here. I'm probably going to need to add one to my collection (which currently consists of one top whorl in hand, and a Turkish on the way hahahaha).
Never heard of one of these, good to know.
Awesome vid - I work in a textile museum in south-east New Brunswick, Canada and have been drop-spindling for 10 years now and have never heard of this! Now I want to make one of these :)
Hi, Denyse, love to chat with you. Could you message me thru missingspindle.etsy.com? Want to compare notes. And thank you for enjoying the video! Lois Swales
Excellent tutorial ! Really interesting ! :)
Thank you! I like the portability of this spindle and would meake me one ;)
Thank you for sharing your knowledge. I hope to buy one of your Designs soon. Bernadette
What a find you are!! Love the format of your videos.
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at about 3:11 the yellow over the purple yarn and the shape of the spindle looks like a Scottish Thistle - how cool
Ooooooh! Good eye! I will remember that.
So, I really like wood working and I have always wanted to learn to spin yarn I think I might try to make one of these
I had never heard of a dealgan, but your video is intriguing, and I have to try it. I have a small hemlock dealgan in progress!
I ended up making me dealgan out of cedar, which is rather soft, but it will do for now. I've done my first spinning on it (I'm new at spinning), and it went better than on my drop spindle. Thank you!
Thank you so much!!! I had seen a picture of a Dealgan from Glasgow museum on pinterest ages ago and I have always wondered how they where used. I saw this video two days ago and watched it many times..... driven my partner nuts talking about it......you are wonderful for sharing your knowledge :) I just wish they had been used in the Viking era so I could use one in my living history display :( Thank you again :)
I have been struggling trying to self-learn to spindle spin. But, trust a woman to give details. . . you said a couple things on this video - that did the trick for me. I finally "got it" and spun quite a bit on my dealgan just today - and it was pretty consistent too. You said to go through the cross and come up "under tension" - that made a huge difference. Also to go through the cross from the top of the cop - that too made a difference. Then how to put the fiber between the index and middle fingers. . . so I cannot tell you how you made my day!! I subscribed to you 'cause I'm sure I'll learn so much more. It's the details that are left out that you include that make the difference.
Thank you!!
Och Aye Lassie that was bonnie ♡ 41% Scot here :) hello from Australia
Having blue already on it makes the yellow very easy to see.
Can you make a video of how to make the grey blanket behind? Its beautiful and it'll to see how it's made. Thank you for the video, really educational. ☺
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awesome ,I am so crafty that I am going to crave one of these for my self to use
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I don't know how I ended up here. I was watching videos about knitting .
Dún Dealgan pronounced in Irish as ' jel jalgan' from Ireland - wooo a bit more history
most interesting, but short spin time and some wobble....
Question - why not wind the yarn up the shaft before making the half hitch? I do that with my bottom whorl spindle.
Thank you so much for the video!!
I just saw some of these on etsy and was wondering if I could actually spin with it, and now I feel like I can!
what is the ideal weight for a person's first dealgan?
Could you spin that up on your thigh if you wanted to? I love the simplicity of it, but I really do like the head of steam you can get up when you roll the spindle forward along the side of your thigh.
Janis Cortese
Maybe. The height of the dealgan would be a factor, as the role location would probably be at the narrow top. Yarn build up might also impede a thigh role after a while. And the top hitch might release during a thigh role. Stay tuned for more Scottish spindle types this year, BTW.
No arrow to show direction of rotation?
Hi Lois, I have a question, even though it is wrapped into a center pull like a Turkish drop spindle, did the Scotts etc. then take it off and unwind it into a skein, and set the spin by washing it like we do today??
Hi, Paula, in the Mary Red Dan Smith article (see my blog) she implies that they plied singles and knit them from the pull ball. It is true that the ply twist will 'set' if it stands unused long enough. However, I also have seen a reference from the last quarter of 19th c. Scotland describing spindle yarn taken off a spindle and skeined to wash it. In most Scottish spindle references, researchers are dogged by the problem of the word 'spindle' not being clearly defined. Whorl or Whorl-less? So, I am afraid I have no good answer! sometimes history is like that…...
I meant Dealgans!Dog gone auto correct!
How far back in history has this style been found if you know?
I discuss what I know in my blog here: missingspindle.blogspot.com. The earliest extant spindle I've. Found is in Glasgow and dated to the 1700s. O
Where can I buy one? I can't seem to find them anywhere.
+Chaznia Marquardt I sell these re-creations in my Etsy store here: missingspindle.etsy.com. You can learn more about them by visiting my blog here: missingspindle.blogspot.com. I am turning more this weekend; look for them next week! - Lois
Thanks! I'll keep an eye out for updates!
Chaznia Marquardt Try Snyder Spindles, they've started making them and also did a short video
Do they still use the Dealgan in Scotland?
A good question. I know it was in use in the Outer Hebrides in the 1970s. This is also true of the Canadian Maritime Provinces. I dont know if spinners with unbroken traditions are spinning on them today.
It's a drop spindle
romania ua-cam.com/video/80skyIZyiaY/v-deo.html
Americans trying to be British... Oh dear