http://www.word-detective.com/2008/02/distaff/ Semper Ubi Sub Ubi Wed, 20 Mar 2013 19:32:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.word-detective.com/2008/02/distaff/comment-page-1/#comment-5158 Erin Sun, 27 Jun 2010 23:40:46 +0000 http://www.word-detective.com/2008/02/12/distaff/#comment-5158 Are those half-million hits talking about women, or about, y'know, distaffs? Wrist distaffs are popular with drop spindle spinners, while a lot of spinning wheels for sale today have optional distaffs to attach to them. There are pages on how to dress distaffs, pages on how to spin from distaffs, pages of people selling handmade distaffs. For comparison, "scutching" gets 147,000 hits on Google, and far fewer people involved in the fiber arts are doing scutching than are using a distaff. Are those half-million hits talking about women, or about, y’know, distaffs? Wrist distaffs are popular with drop spindle spinners, while a lot of spinning wheels for sale today have optional distaffs to attach to them. There are pages on how to dress distaffs, pages on how to spin from distaffs, pages of people selling handmade distaffs. For comparison, “scutching” gets 147,000 hits on Google, and far fewer people involved in the fiber arts are doing scutching than are using a distaff.

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