“The spindle issue” was first published  in the Spring 1995 issue of Spin.Off, Deborah Robson, then editor, introduced  the concept of devoting a large portion of the issue to hand spindles with a bit  of trepidation. This is because when the issue came out spindles were largely  considered a secondary tool among hand spinners. Sure you might learn how to  spin on a drop spindle so that you could understand the process, but any self respecting  spinner would soon graduate to a spinning wheel when given a chance.  Or so the notion went. Of course, this attitude denied the rich history of spindles  and spinning traditions around the world. All you have to do is consider the  millions of yards of spindle-spun threads that composed the sails of Viking ships,  the vibrant magical cloth of Indonesia, the mummy wrappings of ancient Egypt, or  the ceremonial cloaks of Peru to understand that a spindle is a powerful and useful  tool for making yarn. The Spring 1995 issue was instrumental in dispelling those  notions among modern spinners and offering insight into a simple tool that has  profound capacity for making yarn.

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