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MajaCraft Little Gem Spinning Wheel
The updated design of the portable MajaCraft Little Gem Spinning Wheel incorporates several enhancements to ensure an exceptional spinning experience. Notable improvements include a front-access stem lock nut for convenient adjustment, an aesthetically pleasing pedal shape, and enhanced rigidity through the stem brace and crank arrangement. With its foldable design, the MajaCraft Little Gem Spinning Wheel is an ideal choice for traveling spinners, offering both portability and superior spinning performance, but certainly not lacking in finesse to cater for all types of spinning.
If you are still on the fence as to which wheel you should go for, you will never go wrong with the Little Gem! Even if you have dreams of one day ‘driving’ the Aura, every true spinner needs a portable wheel, whether to take on holiday, a trip out to the game reserve or the beach, or if you’re anything like me, to settle down at the braai, spinning away while everyone else practice their elbow lifts…:-)
The Little Gem comes with three bobbins and a custom made shoulder bag in Majacraft green. A Travel Kate is also included, so plying is a breeze while you’re out and about.
The Little Gem is perfectly suitable for use on holiday or away from home as it can be folded flat and transported in the special carry bag made for the wheel. The bag has an easy to use carry handle as well as a shoulder strap.
While the Little Gem is both compact and light (approximately 5kg/12lbs – this can vary with the wood), it easily handles spinning and plying any kind of fibre, alpaca, suri, wool, mohair, silk and such. The Little Gem is a full height wheel with attractive and unique design.
Truly a mighty mouse, and to date, our number one seller!
It is built from indigenous Rimu wood, and the Little Gem is 100% handcrafted in the factory in New Zealand. Each Majacraft spinning wheel is signed by one of the team at Majacraft, and is assigned its very own serial number!
The head can be angled left or right to accommodate long draw or your own particular style of drafting. It features double treadle pedals to allow for a smooth treadling motion, so you can even give your circulation a boost!
It is designed with a smaller wheel to be portable, but with its unique gear system, it turns faster and is ideal for spinning very fine yarns!
It can even accommodate the jumbo flyer/bobbin combinations like the Aura Hybrid Flyer, the Plying Flyer and the Wild Flyer. These work with both the Jumbo Plastic Bobbin and the Jumbo wooden bobbin to give you 2x the capacity of a standard bobbin.
Accessories worth adding includes the stylus kit, lace kit, and the wheel skeiner can be used on Little Gem.
Being a travel wheel, it can be stowed in an overhead compartment on a plane, and the dimensions folded in the bag are 56 x 40 x 18 cm.Dimensions:
Maximum height: 740 mm
Maximum width: 380 mm
Maximum depth: 360 mm
Folded height: 150mm
Orifice height: 660 mm
Weight: 4.5 kg
Drive belt length: 1100 mm
Orifice type: Delta (Standard)
Drive wheel: 220 mm
Pulley ratios:
5 – 4.7:1
4 – 5.7:1
3 – 7.5:1
2 – 9.8:1
1 – 12.8:1
Some of the Little Gem features include:
- double treadle
- it comes with three (3) plastic bobbins
- quick change flyer
- no oiling sealed bearings
- sliding flyer hook
- sensitive scotch tension
- NZ rimu construction
- laminated bamboo drive while that has plenty of inertia and looks great
- compact and light
- extremely portable
- it has special Majacraft cast hinges
- spins like a full-sized wheel with an easy rolling treadle action
- compatible with all Majacraft bobbins and flyers (except the giant Overdrive)
Want to know more about us?
For more information on what else we have in store for you, refer to our pages for more information, https://verlorevallei.com/all-about-alpaca/ or contact us https://verlorevallei.com/contact/!
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We usually also have the following natural alpaca fibre colours in stock, as we have animals in all these colours: Natural White, Light Fawn, Medium Fawn, Dark Fawn, Light Brown, Medium Brown, Dark Brown, Black, light Silver Grey, Medium Silver Grey, Dark Silver Grey, Light Rose Grey, Medium Rose Grey, Dark Rose Grey.
A section for dyed fibres will also be added. You are sure to find something to your liking!
We are always open to suggestions, and happy to help with custom orders. We also stock fibre of other sheep breeds that are sourced from the UK from time to time.
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