Images of a Spinner at Large


On my way to Gotland Island

Spinning Wheel from the 1500s

Visby, Gotland Island town wall

Historic Gotland town

Long limestones Gotland Island

Yummy Swedish cuisine

Gotherborg spinners

Clever Swedish spinners water remover

The Ashford Family celebrating at their jubilee dinner

Reverse Bohus knitting

2 day old Casper

Freshly shorn Casper

Richard Ashford modelling my socks

The joy and satisfaction of spinning

You get an incredible sense of achievement when you turn raw wool into a finished product. A pair of booties, or mittens or a warm wool cap. Not everyone can spin. It takes patience, particularly when you are learning and have to get used to tensioning the wheel correctly. But when you know how to spin, and you take raw wool and move it through the processes until it is finished garment, you experience one of the few truly creative, self-reliant moments the modern consumer-driven Western world can give you.