To spin wool with the wind, a wind spindle, made with materials found by the sea, and with one nettle. It can be made in a primitive way.
1 to 2 hours or more, depending on the time spent to find raw materials.
With 3 feathers, 1 thin and straight stick of drifted wood, 2 sea shells (limpet), 1 of them broken, seaweeds, 1 big stick, stinging nettle fibers.
No tool.
Fix the 3 feathers together with nettle fibers to make the rotor.
Pierce the top of the limpet shell by rubbing it on a rock.
Then round the hole with a stone. The size of the hole should be the diameter of the stick which will be the spindle axis.
Fix the rotor on the axis with seaweeds.
Then place the ring-shape broken shell around the axis, before the pierced shell which will make a stop, fixed with seaweeds rolled around the axis.
Fix the big stick between two rocks, then hang the ring to the stick with a piece of seaweed.
Wind makes it spin !
Advantages
- Looking for raw materials ? 3 foot steps rather that 3 clicks.
- Spinning while facing the sea is cool !
- Last but not least, you can use both hands to spin.
Limits
- No wind, no spinning.
- Probably too cool in winter.