How to card and spin the fleece into yarn using a drop spindle are among the skills to be taught.

Spinning evolved from twisting the fibres by hand, to using a drop spindle, to using a spinning wheel.

Years before she got sheep, Mrs. Keane had learned to work a primitive drop spindle.

Sisina Tweed, 26, an artist's model, was sitting toward the back of the café, spinning mohair with a drop spindle.

The zonari are made from sheep's wool hand spun with a drop spindle and dyed red, blue, or black depending on local custom.

A girl in the courtyard's shadows makes yarn on a yo-yo-like drop spindle.

During the day, they would carry a drop spindle with them.

"It is true I had rather card wool, but there is no more to card," she said, and reluctantly took up the drop spindle.

You always seem to turn up whenever the drop spindle of fate begins to spin.

After shearing, the raw wool is washed and spun into yarn using the ph'uska, or Andean drop spindle.