Skeiners and Swifts
There are skeiners and there are swifts.
Skeiners turn in a vertical plane and transform de the wool on the spindles into skeins.
Swifts turn in a horizontal plane and transform the skeins into ball or spool.
Then there are skeiners that double as swifts. Ilídia has one of those with double function, that her son made for her copying a few he had seen around.
The vertical pole has two bolts where the cross fits, either for the skeiner or the swift function. To make the arms of the swift higher and closer to the traditional ones, Ilídia uses four spindles stuck on each end of the cross.
