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How to Use the Scottish whorl-less spindle for spinning woolen yarn. More at my blog: and Etsy shop: . These Gaelic Dealgans, Fadsadh and Fairsaids are remembered as plying spindles, but they were used in the past to spin woolen rolags from sheep raised in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland. They followed Scottish immigrants to the Eastern coast of Canada. There is one 'sighting' in the eastern Appalachians as well where the Scots Irish settled starting late in the 1600/1700's. Bring History forward by giving this suspended spindle a whirl. Please note that I have a typo in the thank you's at the end of this video - Cape Breton is in Nova Scotia, not New Brunswick. Alas. And a very big big thank you for the videographer - Tammy Swales, photographer. We had to flee inside to her studio for this video when the weather turned very uncooperative.
