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They're both single-treadle, which I really like, and they can both be scotch tension, which I also like.
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Yes, I spin sitting with my legs crossed (single-treadle wheel).
March 2005 2005
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Yes, I spin sitting with my legs crossed (single-treadle wheel).
Neps 2005
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When another person in the class whom I know a bit from knitting group offered to let me try out her single-treadle Saxony wheel--since I seemed to be an old-fashioned gal--I moved over and looped the roving into the leader.
Archive 2006-05-01 The Raven 2006
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When another person in the class whom I know a bit from knitting group offered to let me try out her single-treadle Saxony wheel--since I seemed to be an old-fashioned gal--I moved over and looped the roving into the leader.
Spinning The Raven 2006
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For the same reason power-gins and saw-mills found little favor, the single-treadle "foot-gin" and the saw-pit and cross-cut employing ten times as many hands.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 097, January, 1876 Various
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