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A viking age drop spindle for Sunnifa with a soapstone whorl and maple spindle.
A soapstone whorl from Gotland [1]:
The whorl shown is approximately 1.6" diameter; mine was closer to 1.25". Spindle whorls ranged in size down to nearly a half inch diameter. [1]
Maple was in use in Jorvik for turned wood bowls. [2]
[1] Thunmark-Nylen, Die Wikingerzeit Gotlands II, Almqvist & Wiksell International, 1998
[2] Hall, The Viking Dig, The Bodley Head, 1984
