Distaff’s, not just for walking sticks or zombie survival weapons. The Merriam-Webster online dictionary has a very brief description of distaff.
As usual, I’ve searched the internet to gather various pieces of information about the distaff for you.
Here is an article, “Saint Distaff’s Day – marking the end of the Christmas Break” by Maureen James. A good read of the why.
Take a virtual visit to the British Museum to learn more about the distaff shown below.
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license from the British Museum
A few of my wheels with distaff’s.
L. Kromski Minstrel c.2005
R. Jensen Tina II c.2012
Let’s dress a naked distaff:
There’s more than one way to get dressed:
A flax dressing:
Spinning from around the world with a distaff:
A little distaff and spinning to watch as you work on your own:
One last distaff for you to make yourself. The Gypsy Wrist Distaff.
Happy distaff spinning…
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