I still think Susan is the laziest. JUST PASS THE SALT, SUSAN
You must be lazy, Kate
oh I want this
put them together to have a “couple lazy bitches”.
What an unfortunate name. Kate is the dumbest twat I’ve ever met.
Hey! I recognize that! Mine’s under kitchen table.
Why does someone need one of these, you ask?
They are specifically for making yarns by on a wheel or with a hand spindle. If you look at yarn from the store you’ll see it’s made up from 2-6 strands twisted together. This is called ply (like ply wood) and the act of twisting them together is called plying. To make it happen, we twist the individual stands (called singles) in one direction a little bit tighter than the finished yarn will be onto the spools you see there. Then we load 2 or 3 of them into the lazy kate and spin the strands back onto the wheel or spindle, twisting the opposite direction. This sounds easy but it a pain to manage 2 o 3 strands of yarn to twist evenly without a stand like this.
Fancy versions have ways to keep the spools from spinning freely so they don’t unroll too much at a time, they are called tensioned lazy kates
Any idea how many strands of fingering-sport (1.5~2) I’d need to ply to get up to (3~3.5) dk-worsted?
The size of the finished yarn will be around 1.3-1.5 the diameters of the singles depending on how tightly the originals are spun. Woolen (fluffy, looser) yarns will compress more than worsted (smooth, tighter) yarns.
This makes a lot of sense and adds valuable context!
Also, if Kate has to maintain control under tension while being called lazy, I think she and I could be best friends.
Very high quality content
This is just a spool rack. Something like this is used in every electronics lab to hold wire and soldering wire.
Yep, basically. Just thought it was interesting to see that they named it lazy Kate in textiles applications
Though, this rack looks like the ends of the spools are used as pulleys to keep their rotation synchronized.
I think those are for tensioning, to keep the strings tight while they’re being twisted. So you don’t end up with spaghetti or a rats nest
Are you suggesting that electronics came before textiles…?
Pretty sure this one predates yours by a couple centuries.
??? Spools of yarn are still spools. I’ve seen similar racks for threads.
And? The textile industry predates electronics by a LONG time. It’s not just a “spool rack” if that came after…
A lazy kate is used for spinning multiple yarns into one, but spool racks are used for anything that is on a spool. Spool racks in the textile industry almost certainly existed long before lazy kates did. The electronics was just an example that people were likely very familiar with.
And downvoting comments like you’re doing is just rude. It doesn’t make your comments any more correct.
Downvoting is used for foolish comments, you made a foolish comment so got downvoted.
What else would you recommend the system be used for?
Your whinging just looks childish.
is a device used in spinning to hold one or more spools or bobbins in place while the yarn on them is wound off from the side of the bobbin.
It’s not “just” for spools, and it’s not “just” for spinning.
SchmidtGenetics, I noticed there is another account that is voting the same way as you, called [email protected]
Are both of these accounts you? Are you using two accounts to vote? That’s not very nice.
I also noticed another comment of yours that they were the only other upvote for. This one: https://lemmy.world/comment/21097234
I downvoted you for being petulant
