I have been spinning to make yarn since I was 21 yrs old, I'm now 60. I love your enthusiasm! It's nice seeing young people taking up the craft. If you put a bit of oiled leather where the flyer goes into the 2 upright bits of wood (they're called the maidens) you may find it's a little less noisy, probably attach it it with a bit of double sided tape. Now I'd really like to see you make the shirt, are you going to knit, crochet or weave it with your yarn. I'd also like to see you adapt that old sewing machine body into a potters wheel. Cheers from Tasmania!
Thank you again, I watched your video again and loved it again! I forgot to mention, if you happen to use a bit of leather on the upright bits to quieten your spinning wheel, put a tiny bit of sewing machine oil on the leather bits and it will reduce the drag a bit also. Ok a potters wheel would be good, what about a wood turning lathe? Powered by the feet, looking forward to seeing your inventions. Cheers!
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off grid Dremel or rotary tool. my fordom has a drill press and a miniature auto hammer. and I like the idea of "doing for self" and not reliant. thank you for the video
This is awesome! I haven't seen any of these channels focus on textiles. It was such an important task back in the day, where traditionally women made all the clothing that everyone in the world wore, but it doesn't get nearly as much attention as you'd imagine. I guess it's not as exciting as how swords or other instruments of war were made, but you can be sure the soldiers weilding those swords were wearing hand woven textiles under that metal armour.
There is a pretty significant community devoted to thread spinning as a hobby. I think it's more that interest in that area seldom overlaps with interest in wood and metal fabrication technology. In the USA, the term 'distaff' is occasionally still used to refer to women. (I've not come across that usage in other English cultures though)
Grumble, I've got a treadle base, bought it with the plans to use it to power a small lathe, later a small table saw, then jigsaw and who knows after that. guess I'll have to get hopping if I want to beat you there :D
It would be great to see a way to card wool using a treadle power....i have seen some drum carders operated by pedal power... converted bicycles....look up pedal power drum carder or cycle carders....a carder is basically made from a cloth filled with teeth fitted on a cylinder..and it could be made to turn with pedal power. then you could process the fiber before you spin it. i would love to see what else you can come up with ...keep those ideas coming!!
Getting a real HTME vibe from your collection of home built low tech inventions, especially the plan to make a shirt from fleece (nalbinding or needle knitting?). I'll be interested to see how it goes. What to power with the treadle- how about a forge blower so you can keep your hands free for poking the fire? I'm not sure you'd want to run a bench top forge in that room full of books, though...
I attached a manual grain grinder to a treadle base. It was meant to turn by hand with a handle but the wheel had a groove if you wanted to attach it to an electric motor. Worked perfect for the treadle belt. Love it. I will use your idea of the wing nut base to make it more versatile, that way I don't have to have a lot of treadle machines all over the house for the "stuff" it runs. Thank you, can't wait to make my Indian Head spinning wheel
I plan on putting my drum carder onto the treadle base. I like facing the orifice when I spin so I would prefer attaching the flyer to a treadle base at a 90 degree angle. I love your creativity. Thanks for the model.
A woodturning Lathe would do well on that treadle! Great video! Thank you! I create working miniatures and have been asked to create a spinning wheel, so I am gathering ideas and doing my research. This has helped tremendously. Thank you!
For a shirt you either need to knit, for a stretchy knit fabric or make a loom for a woven fabric. Making knitting needles would be easy ... I like circular ones, especially if making a garment. 32 or 40 inches is good for that. You could do a back strap loom not much to make with that or make a rigid heddle loom. I keep meaning to make one ...someday lol
A table saw or a drill or a lathe just a couple ideas man . I apologize if someone else already mentioned that I didn't check out the other comments. Thanks for sharing very creative man!!
I love it 😊 I have this typ of sewing machine but sadly it is so rusty in side that I don't know how to fix it. But I don't what to throw it away. Can't wait to your next video on how to make one 😃
Kiddie pool, manual battery charger, and some baking soda. Electrolysis does a pretty good job. Alternatively you can let it sit in molasses and water 1:9 for a few weeks if you have a big enough container. There are some good videos on both of these processes.
Hi! I'm in the way of building my own spinning wheel, so I'm serching a lot trying to understand the mechanism (never seen a machine in my life) and you are the first to explain that the flyer turn becouse is pulled from the bobin becouse they are conected with the string. Something simple but confusing to me. I understand that this only applies to irish tension. Thanks for the information! Sorry for the writing mistakes!
Scotch tension works nearly the same way, except that the flyer pulls the bobbin with the string instead of the other way around. I went with Irish tension to make the shaft simpler. JB.
How do you connect up the treadle to the bobbin...or did I miss that? I need this in my life as have a dilapidated treadle machine waiting for a new life and just starting out on woolly adventures and this is the kind of short cut I need. Brilliant. Bx
Add a sewing machine motor and belt. The foot pedal control is variable speed. Put a feeder on the raw cotton side. You could run a lot of string very quickly.
What you’re calling string, which is fiber once it’s been twisted and holds together, we call yarn. Your next challenge is to put a second lot onto a second bobbin, then take both those ends, tie them onto a third bobbin and spin in the opposite direction onto that. It’s called plying. That will make a proper 2 ply yarn that doesn’t unravel. You have to balance the amount of twist. To see how that works, draft a small piece of fluff in your fingers, twist and twist and twist, keep drafting and it gets really long, once you’ve got as far with it as possible (assuming it’s clean enough for your liking) nip the center with your lips, under your chin, with the help of a friend, somehow, halve it, and let the two halves twist back on each other. Now that is a 2 ply piece of yarn!
How about a rope plying wheel? I'm growing some of my own fibers (Caesar Weeds sprung up naturally here)...got them soaking in the kiddie pool right now to ret them. They are sort of like a cross between jute and flax fibers. I want to use them for weaving as well as macrame type crafts. I'm in the process of building an inkle loom. Twisting the single strand wouldn't be a problem. I'm not sure how to go about plying them.
I started my RU-vid journey with the king of random trying to make rope out of human hair and many videos later I end up here. Random did happen. Time for bed now... Btw you explained wonderfully, I am now tempted to make my own and spin.
You know what, you could make a little tumbler to knock some of the chaff out of your raw fleece. I have a hybrid Indian Head spinner with a jumbo Ashford Traditional MOA/flyer/bobbin I got for it, and I just realized you weren't braking your flyer. But, it works.
Would you be able to power the drum on a broken washing machine I was thinking using the belt to attach to a wheel on the washing machine! I think a top load would be more effective and less stress when loaded! I thought I was the only person who used these truffles so! Thsnks👍
Hmm, I just bought a treadle base for my sewing machine...haven't got it hooked up yet. It uses a 3/16" belt. I'm wondering how hard it would be to take the belt off and on again to use the treadle base for other things...like a lathe! I wouldn't mess with a potter's wheel unless it was to be permanently set up because clay, water and wooden table tops don't go good together! And it would be a nightmare to clean up to use it for sewing again.
forge bellows! lathe! pillar drill! go crazy and get a planetary gear set to twist your threads you make with the spinning wheel into rope! the possiblilites are endless!
Did you add the camera wobble in post? It started making me sea sick by the end. I like your videos though, thanks for doing the Cody cross promotion so I learnt about you channel.
I hadn't seen it-have you made any other attachments for the treadle base? I'm still itching to try this out, but if I could make a potter's wheel, lathe, or other bits for it, I could even more easily justify that treadle sewing machine I've been storing while my wife tells me to get rid of it! lol
I have a bunch of designs I'm looking at in Pinterest. But I haven't done more than 2 spinning wheel flyers so far. It's among the back burner projects waiting until I get a house JB
In his latest video (part two of Building an Astrolabe) Uri Tuchman builds a treadle-powered scroll saw (in passing!) in order to simplify cutting out the frame of the astrolabe. The scroll-saw mini build begins at around 3:00. The video is here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-8U7ED6k5NLg.html and is well worth a look.
