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Vote now! This year we will again be creating a limited edition bobbin in a new colour to add to your collection, and we would like to invite you to help us choose which one! Our ‘bobbin colour of the year’ is always popular, and …
Yes thats right! TWO camps coming up for 2026! First in Australia and then in New Zealand! Read on for all the details and our tutor features. Scroll to the end of the page to find the registration links. We have two Camps in 2026, …
As the end of 2025 nears, we have a very special event to announce. We are pleased to collaborate with the very talented Suzy Brown (of Fiberygoodness tinyStudio magazine) to present four hand-painted Limited Edition Luna wheels. Each wheel is a one-of-a-kind piece, uniquely themed around a season: Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter. Enjoy a scroll through the seasons below, then read how to enter the draw to purchase one of these unique wheels!
We hope you enjoy the gallery for each wheel! You can click the images to see a larger version. Scroll down to enter the draw to purchase.
The Majacraft Luna is a distinct design departure from other Majacraft wheels, while still delivering the quality and functionality that Majacraft spinners expect. All the lines flow beautifully, with the drive wheel appearing to float within the elegant, wrap-around spine. The clever angle of the flyer shaft allows for a reduced overall size. Despite its compact appearance, all key spinning dimensions—pedal angle and separation, effective spinning height—remain consistent with our other wheels. Like all Majacraft wheels, the Luna is compatible with our full range of pulleys, flyers, and bobbins.
Your Limited Edition Luna comes complete with four plastic bobbins (choose from Black, Frosty, Seafoam, Rubber Ducky, or this year’s colour Believe) and the Fine Flyer, which features a round orifice. The paintwork on these Special Edition wheels is done entirely by hand directly onto the wheel in quality acrylic, finished in the Majacraft workshop with our usual protective clear coat.
To make this fair for everyone, we will be holding a draw to determine who will have the opportunity to purchase one of these beautiful wheels. If you wish to purchase one, please complete this entry form:
Rank the wheels in your preferred order on the form. If your top choice is gone when your name is selected, we’ll move to your next favourite one. Only rank the wheels you want to buy—leaving others blank is fine.
The draw will be held here at Majacraft on the 1st December 2025, with the lucky competition winners notified soon after. Please note, payment will be required within 5 days of the draw. This is to ensure we can post your wheel prior to the Christmas postal cut offs.
Each wheel costs NZ$2500 plus shipping and your local taxes. (US customers, please remember to add your 15% tariff on).
The allocation process will proceed in two stages:
A Main Draw will select four primary entries to purchase the limited edition wheels. A subsequent Reserve Draw will select four reserve entries, which will be used to allocate wheels should any primary sale fall through.
The prize for winning the main draw is the right to purchase one of these exclusive, hand-painted Majacraft Luna spinning wheels. Please note that entry is limited to one per individual; multiple submissions will be automatically voided.
We are looking forward to placing these special wheels with their excited owners!
Votes are counted! It was a close race, but as time went on it became clear that the favourite colour for Majacraft Bobbin Colour of the Year is…………… BELIEVE FROSTY!!! It was a good race, and Belladonna solid took an early lead, but by the …
Edit – 12 August 2025 – Voting is now closed! Check back on the blog soon for the results! Once again, this year we will be creating one limited edition bobbin colour to add to your collection, and we would like you to help us …
Yes! We have been plotting and planning, and in 2024 we are bringing you TWO Majacraft Camps! One will be at our usual venue at Papamoa Beach, Aotearoa New Zealand, and the other will be a return to our wonderful Australian Venue at Lake Dewar! Both of these venues have proven to be wonderful places to relax, learn, eat well, socialise, and enjoy a few days of fibre fun together, we would love to welcome you in 2024 to either (or both!) of our Majacraft Camps. We are very lucky, and grateful, that the lovely Janet Day (My Spin on Things) is once again organising the Australian Camp, Janet is so good at creating a wonderful environment for inspirational classes and enjoyable social activities, we have enjoyed planning these two camps together!
We have some fantastic teachers coming to share their knowledge and inspiration with you! There is a slightly different line up at each camp, so if you were planning to come to both, there will be something new at each one.
Here are our lovely teachers and classes!
All the way from Tucson, USA, Joan aka The Queen of Cotton, brings to us her wealth of knowledge of all things hemp – the strongest, most durable, long-lasting natural soft fibre on the planet. A well-known and respected spinning teacher for over 40 years, Joan has also published many books and articles, and also DVD’s on the subject of plant fibres. More info on Joan can be found at www.cottonspinning.com
An inspirational art yarn spinner all the way from Washington, USA, Charan brings to us his creative passion for colour and textures with clever ideas and exciting spinning and plying techniques. At Camp, Charan will be teaching his ‘fish-net’ yarn, an art yarn that is fun and Charan is also a well-known potter, using his knowledge of fibre and textiles to create amazing function works of art – check it out on his website www.creativewithclay.com
Pat is well known throughout New Zealand as one of our most knowledgable and experienced spinners and teachers. She tutors the Creative Fibre NZ Handspinners Certificate, and has authored the book ‘In A Spin’. For Camp, Pat will be teaching her Crimp, Spin, Ply class, spinning to match the crimp: – How to use the crimp of the fleece to guide the thickness and amount of twist to incorporate into your hand spun yarn.
Emily’s fibre arts journey began when her grandmother taught her to crochet as a seven year-old, launching a life-long passion. Also an experienced knitter, Emily took up spinning four years ago. She is fascinated by the interplay of fibre, yarn construction and cloth-making, and enjoys designing yarns that precisely suit their intended purpose.
Emily’s handspun yarn and garments have won a number of first prizes at the Australian Sheep and Wool Show, and she loves the opportunity to share her skills with others. At camp she will be teaching a class focussing on elasticised yarns and twist directions.
Maren Klum is originally from Germany, and now resides in NZ. Maren brings her technical knowledge of the iron-age craft of band weaving. At Camp Maren will be teaching Scandinavian band weaving – weave a band using a Scandinavian pattern heddle and shuttle. Learn to create a two or three coloured warp on a pattern heddle, read a pattern and weave a basic band. This will give you the knowledge to weave wider bands in the future. While weaving, the band will be attached to a belt (please bring a sturdy one with you) on one end and to a post (provided) at the other.
Suzy Brown is the Editor/Publisher of tinyStudio magazine for spinners and yarn crafters, and co-author of the Big Book of Fibery Rainbows. She brings her in-depth knowledge of fibre preparation to her ‘Experimental Blending’ class, where you will be mixing and matching unusual fibres to make your own blends, records, and samples.
We would love to see you at camp next year! As always, places are limited so we do recommend you contact either the office (support@majacraft.co.nz) to register your interest and make sure you are on our Camp email list, or Janet Day (camp@myspinonthings.com.au) to register for Majacraft Australia Camp!
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We have a new addition to our Majacraft range of spinning wheels! The Luna is an innovative new wheel, designed to be so smooth it makes spinning a breeze. The extra stability of the inline design and our drive system combine to provide a lovely spinning experience on a wheel that is responsive and easy to use.
We started planning and designing this wheel at the beginning of 2021, although we had talked about doing so before then too, but…good things take time! In fact, here is the very first sketch of the wheel that would become Luna.
Our goal in creating this new spinning wheel was to develop an inline wheel with a small and friendly feel to it, that is as accessible for new spinners as it is accommodating for experienced spinners. Of course, the look and style of this wheel were also a nice challenge to create! We wanted to make a wheel that would take advantage of the properties of the bamboo wood that we have chosen for its construction. This is a very durable and stable wood with an interesting grain which is ideal for creating a wide range of beautiful shapes. The curves on Luna would be much more difficult to reliably create without using bamboo as the base material.
An interesting aspect of Luna is the orientation of the drive wheel, with the spin direction towards or away from the spinner. Many spinning wheels with this kind of orientation have a direct drive system that uses the treadles to turn a small rubber wheel that sits against the side of the drive wheel, turning it with friction. We designed Luna to run on a drive band instead, using the super reliable Little Gem crank as a foundation which provides a really natural feel to spinning. The rotation of the drive wheel matching the direction of the stem enhances the stability of the Luna in amazing ways.
We have put a lot of thought into this, and our experience spinning with Luna over the last year, plus feedback from people who have tried it, suggest that this is the ideal wheel for people who love to spin fine and traditional yarns, who want a wheel with a smaller footprint but remains stable and smooth to spin on, who love something edgy and unique in the aesthetics and is built from sustainable wood. It will appeal to beginners for its friendliness in set-up and ease of use, and will also appeal to intermediate and experienced spinners who will immediately notice how silent and smooth it is in use.
Luna comes standard with four of our lightweight black plastic molded 4oz(+) bobbins. It is fitted with a five groove pulley which gives you ratios ranging from 6:1 to 14:1. It comes equipped with our lovely fine flyer with the smooth round ceramic orifice – ideal for spinning traditional yarns. The orifice height, measured from the fine flyer orifice is 690mm from the floor. For comparison, the Aura orifice height is 730mm, and the Gem is 640mm, however, Luna is designed in such a way that if you place your hands in your normal spinning position, the orifice will be pointing directly toward them.
Luna weighs in at 7 kilos (15.4 pounds), enough to add stability yet still easy to pick up and move around as needed. One of the coolest things is that Luna arrives to you in the box, fully constructed, all you have to do is add the drive bands! Check out our Majacraft YouTube channel for our Luna videos showing everything you need to know to get going straight out of the box.
Additionally of course, this wheel will fit most of our accessories, Suzy has especially enjoyed using the Lace kit with the fast pulley (ratios are 10:1 – 18:1) and has made some lovely light and lacey yarns.
It will also fit the jumbo bobbins and Aura flyer for bulky and art yarns, or for plying larger quantities of yarn. Although art yarns are not the Luna’s main forte with its use of Scotch tension, just like our other wheels, it will certainly allow you to comfortably fill a bobbin full of art yarn, when the mood grabs you!
We are thrilled to be adding this new wheel to our range of quality, spinning wheels. Like all our other wheels, we have used the best components available for Luna. Each wheel is individually hand built and then tested for function and performance before it leaves the workshop.
We hope you will love Luna as much as we do!
A photographic look at the weekend! Each year our Majacraft Camp fills with the presence of wonderful spinners and fantastic teachers, all willing to share knowledge, ideas, and our passion for fibre art in every form. 2023 has been no exception! This year we welcomed …