{"id":103,"date":"2017-04-09T05:22:09","date_gmt":"2017-04-09T05:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?page_id=103"},"modified":"2017-04-09T05:22:09","modified_gmt":"2017-04-09T05:22:09","slug":"glossary","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.majacraft.co.nz\/?page_id=103","title":{"rendered":"Glossary"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><span class=\"strong\">Carding<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Using a machine with a drum with metal tines, dense clumps of fleece are broken up and made more even by lining up the fibres<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"strong\">Drive Wheel<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>The heavy wooden wheel that is like &#8216;the engine&#8217; of a spinning wheel. It has a lot of inertia to help make spinning smooth and even<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"strong\">Flyer<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>The component on the spinning wheel that in conjunction with the bobbin puts the twist into the fibre<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"strong\">Lazy Kate<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>A holder for bobbins that is used when plying yarns together<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"strong\">Niddy Noddy<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>A hand held tool for winding yarn into a skein<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"strong\">Orifice<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>The opening at the end of the flyer that the yarn passes through when spinning<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"strong\">Plying<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Spinning two or more single lengths of yarn into one plyed yarn.<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"strong\">Roving<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>A continuous length of unspun fibre prior to spinning<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"strong\">Shearing<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>The removal of fleece from an animal by the use of a mechanical shearing machine or a set of blade clippers<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"strong\">Skein<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Spun or plyed yarn is wound into continuous loops approximately one metre in circumference. This collection of loops is called a skein<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"strong\">Spindle<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>A basic form of spinning where a weight on a shaft is used to twist the fibre into yarn<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"strong\">Whorl<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>The small pulley that is mounted on the flyer spindle. It provides the gearing for the different drive ratios of the spinning wheel<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carding Using a machine with a drum with metal tines, dense clumps of fleece are broken up and made more even by lining up the fibres Drive Wheel The heavy wooden wheel that is like &#8216;the engine&#8217; of a spinning wheel. It has a lot [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":69,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-103","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.majacraft.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.majacraft.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.majacraft.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.majacraft.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.majacraft.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.majacraft.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/103\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.majacraft.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/69"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.majacraft.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}