{"id":992,"date":"2020-02-01T16:28:48","date_gmt":"2020-02-01T16:28:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yacsomerset.co.uk\/?p=992"},"modified":"2020-02-01T16:35:40","modified_gmt":"2020-02-01T16:35:40","slug":"viking-crafts-and-spinning-at-the-museum-of-somerset-1st-february-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yacsomerset.co.uk\/index.php\/2020\/02\/01\/viking-crafts-and-spinning-at-the-museum-of-somerset-1st-february-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Viking crafts and spinning at the Museum of Somerset &#8211; 1st February 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our February session was run for us by Sue Coates who is a member of the Spinning Guild and demonstrated how to use spinning equipment through the ages.\u00a0 Sue started off by showing us Neolithic stick spinning and then went through all the different methods right up to the modern spinning wheel.\u00a0 Sue then concentrated particularly on Viking spinning methods and she had brought along some beautiful lead spindle 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