date-created: '2014-12-04'
date-updated: '2024-06-18'
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title: 'Drop Spindle for Spinning Wool into Yarn'
description: 'The Drop Spindle is an ancient tool used for spinning fibers such as wool, cotton, flax, and hemp into yarn, without the need for a large, expensive, and complex spinning wheel. Traditionally Drop Spindles are made out of wood with with a notch, groove, or metal hook on the end for securing the yarn. The drop spindle provides the tension necessary to spin yarn and provides a convenient way to introduce twist into the yarn as well as a place to wind yarn as it is being spun. Spun yarn is used for a multitude of processes such as knitting, weaving, crocheting, thread-making and rope-making in order to produce final products. Aside from personal use, products such as clothing and rope are a necessary and marketable product in any society and can be sold or traded in exchange for other necessities.'
keywords:
    - '3D printing'
    - 'drop spindle'
    - wool
    - yarn
    - thread
    - Eboxy
    - Plastic
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image: 'https://www.appropedia.org/w/images/0/02/Drop_spindle.jpg'
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