Swift (textiles)

General

In contrast to the function of a reel whose scope is fixed and serves the winding of yarn, a yarn is wound in its scope needs to be variable to accommodate trains of different lengths can. Be Garnwinden in hand and home - weaving and used in knitting to fill coils or produce skeins.

To add a strand to ever hang up on the yarn is wound, it is necessary to push together their items in some way and then move out to the required level and to fix.

For this are various forms in use that are confusingly referred to as " reel " in normal usage:

Screen reel

A similarly an umbrella constructed shape, which is used especially for home use in knitting and hand spinning. A shade reel is usually bolted to a table and runs horizontally from.

Role reel

Reel spools are an independently standing on the floor shape which consists of two wooden rotatably mounted cylinders of 10 -20cm diameter. Both roles are independently of each other on a vertical support and fixed. The yarn is done just vertically. Role reels are mainly used in hand weaving. You are most variable in terms of the length of the usable strands and running at its calmest.

More

• A different form of a yarn is wound is composed of four pyramid diverging strips which are fixedly mounted to a rotary central axis. This can be easily launched from the top strands of different lengths. The drainage is carried horizontally.
• Very old is a cross made of two strips on a free standing base. The vertical beams may be used in different wells of the strips.
• A more complicated construction represent the so-called Karbolzer, which consist of at least two, often three conductor -like components, which can be folded into one another and run vertically. The rotating piece of equipment can be lifted out of the base, is folded to hang up the strand, then pushed apart and locked. The scope is regulated by removable rung.

History

Garnwinden have been introduced in the 13th century along with the state loom, the winding wheel and the spinning wheel, and further Webzubehör from the Orient. A simple form of yarn is wound is, for example, already mapped about 1310 in Le Livre des Métiers d' Ypres.