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View the Fast Bobbin Change A Close-Up Look The Fantasia comes in a boxed kit and requires an hour of assembly. Watch the videos below on how to assemble or download an instructional PDF or Manufacturer Instructions (Pictures Only)

Kromski N.A. is creating a series of videos that will present the products we sell, answer questions on the topics of spinning and weaving, and offer tips and useful information about spinning and weaving. Below you will see the videos on how to start weaving on the Harp Loom. Using the Harp Warping Board Using… Continue reading Starting to Weave

Start by remembering that your wheel is a mechanical machine. Maintenance is to be expected, but it will never be difficult. If things don’t look or feel right, that is your first clue that you need to perform maintenance. View the videos below to learn step-by-step how to take care of your wheel.

All spinning wheels have a set of standard ratios and many have optional ratios achieved by either adding different whorls or a different type of flyer. View the comparison chart below and watch the informational videos, to learn all about ratios from Tim.  

Looking for a new pastime? Wondering what to do when you retire? When John Heater turned 65 and about to retire, his sister-in-law lent him a spinning wheel and John began to use it and to make yarn. That was just the beginning. What to do with the yarn? Like many people with a new… Continue reading Is the Harp in Your Future?

In-Depth Description of Double Drive Wheels There was a time when spinning wheels did not have bobbins and flyers. Yarn was spun on a wheel that had just a spindle. While great yarn can be made in this manner, it was a slow process. Spinners had to do a long type of draw with the… Continue reading Double Drive Description

In-Depth Description of Single Drive Wheels Compared to the double drive set-up for spinning wheels,the single drive mechanics are rather new. The introduction of single drive wheels might have come about for the ease of fabricating the parts. Single drive mechanics can be of two types: flyer lead or bobbin lead. The difference has to… Continue reading Single Drive Description

Spinning Wheels – Understanding How Single Drive and Double Drive Systems Work You have seen the phrases: “single drive with Scotch tension set-up” or “double drive set-up”. What do these terms mean? How does it affect your spinning? Which is the better system? Below we will talk about both and give you our opinions of each.… Continue reading Single Drive vs. Double Drive Wheels

From Wolsztyn, Poland, to a deep mine in South Dakota, who could imagine that a low tech tool of weaving developed thousands of years ago would help the decidedly high tech research of astrophysics.  Here is a note about how a Kromski stick shuttle is “pushing” the frontiers of science. ” I am an astrophysicist working… Continue reading A Kromski Stick Shuttle Furthers Science