I have discovered Malcolm Fielding spindles. They are awesome! Heirloom quality spinners, very stable, very beautiful woods… great stuff! I now have two pocket Tibetans, a tahkli and a Dyavol, and when they arrived, they all came with some sample fiber: super fine Tasmanian merino.
I loved the look and feel of that beautiful undyed fiber, and decided to spin it as-is, and very thinly – I was seeing a beautiful Estonian lace shawl in my head, made of pretty handspun. So I started spinning it and I used some of my lightest, most delicate spindles to achieve the thin thread I wanted.
After filling up six spindles, the 50 grams of merino were all spun. In the picture you see (left to right): Malcolm Fielding Tahkli, Malcolm Fielding Pocket Tibetan, Silly Salmon Designs Tibetan, Phil Powell Russian, Malcolm Fielding Pocket Tibetan, Malcolm Fielding Dyavol. All great spinners, and good at spinning thin yarns.
I made a plying ball and decided to ply this on my wheel. Gosh, it’s thin! I made a 2-ply yarn, and it came out to be 667 meters/50 grams – my first cobweb yarn! I have ordered another 100 grams of this gorgeous fiber and I will continue spinning more until I have enough for a beautiful shawl.
That is incredibly thin, amazing!