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Posted by suzee on September 11, 2008, 10:34 am
Mary Fisher wrote:
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>> Mary Fisher spun a FINE 'yarn':
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>> ++Can you identify this, please?
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>> ++http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=eaqis8&s=4
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>> ++Mary
>> +Forgot to say, it's just over 8" long, 1" wide and 1/2" thick.
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>> +TIA
>> +Mary
>> Mary Fisher. . .
>> Until you added this dimensions I would've said it looked like a tatting
>> shuttle......
>> N.
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> Yebbut there's nothing - no spool - on which to wind the yarn.
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> The person who's asked about it has now said that it was bought at a yard
> sale and they were told it was a shuttle - they didn't know!
Oh, it might be a weaving shuttle then, but usually the ends are notched
to keep the yarn from slipping off.
sue
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Posted by Mary Fisher on September 11, 2008, 11:16 am
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>> The person who's asked about it has now said that it was bought at a yard
>> sale and they were told it was a shuttle - they didn't know!
> Oh, it might be a weaving shuttle then, but usually the ends are notched
> to keep the yarn from slipping off.
How would the yarn be held on it?
Mary
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Posted by suzee on September 11, 2008, 2:00 pm
Mary Fisher wrote:
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>>> The person who's asked about it has now said that it was bought at a yard
>>> sale and they were told it was a shuttle - they didn't know!
>> Oh, it might be a weaving shuttle then, but usually the ends are notched
>> to keep the yarn from slipping off.
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> How would the yarn be held on it?
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> Mary
You wrap it lengthwise. Here are some examples...
These are stick shuttles -
http://www.harrisville.com/proddetail.php?prod=A355
.. a boat shuttle - http://www.harrisville.com/proddetail.php?prod=A353
.. a ski shuttle - http://www.harrisville.com/proddetail.php?prod=A381
.. for thicker yarns/rags -
http://www.harrisville.com/proddetail.php?prod=A355
It may be part of it is missing, too.
sue
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Posted by Mary Fisher on September 11, 2008, 3:16 pm
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> Mary Fisher wrote:
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>>>> The person who's asked about it has now said that it was bought at a
>>>> yard sale and they were told it was a shuttle - they didn't know!
>>> Oh, it might be a weaving shuttle then, but usually the ends are notched
>>> to keep the yarn from slipping off.
>> How would the yarn be held on it?
>> Mary
> You wrap it lengthwise. Here are some examples...
LOL! I know about shuttles - we make several types (and use them) - that's
why we don't think it is a shuttle of eny kind. Yarn wouldn't stay on it
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> It may be part of it is missing, too.
There's no sign of anything missing.
Mary
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Posted by FarmI on September 12, 2008, 9:09 am
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>>> The person who's asked about it has now said that it was bought at a
>>> yard >>> sale and they were told it was a shuttle - they didn't know!
>> Oh, it might be a weaving shuttle then, but usually the ends are notched
>> to keep the yarn from slipping off.
> How would the yarn be held on it?
If the yarn is wound onto it in a figure of 8 pattern, it would stay on.
I've used a ruler as a shuttle doing the same thing. It worked fine - the
most difficult thing is holding the thread when you first start to wind the
8. the 'thing' you have would work easier wound with yarn in a figure of 8
pattern because it has the fat belly where the centre of the 8 goes.
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>> +
>> ++Can you identify this, please?
>> ++
>> ++http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=eaqis8&s=4
>> ++
>> ++Mary
>> +Forgot to say, it's just over 8" long, 1" wide and 1/2" thick.
>> +
>> +TIA
>> +Mary
>> Mary Fisher. . .
>> Until you added this dimensions I would've said it looked like a tatting
>> shuttle......
>> N.
>
> Yebbut there's nothing - no spool - on which to wind the yarn.
>
> The person who's asked about it has now said that it was bought at a yard
> sale and they were told it was a shuttle - they didn't know!