Continuing in my celebration of spinning around the world, I bring suspended spinning.
Here is a video from Peru, note that she uses a hand distaff but does not USE the distaff in the same way as with grasped spinning, she uses her left hand to hold onto the fibre and has to take her right hand away from the spindle to draft the thread out. Compare this to most grasped spinning we have seen last week where the distaff held the fibre and the left had drafted it out while the right hand spun the spindle.
Next I shared another suspended video from Peru, this one without a distaff.
Then a video of plying from Western Mongolia
And then off to see a Himalayan yak herder spinning yak wool
Then we we traveled to Northern Thailand to see cotton being spun
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