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                <text>&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Add to CKC’s Community Collection&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
CKC invites you to share your treasures in our Community Collection. We built this resource to help you preserve and share the items that are meaningful to you and their stories, and to help you find out more about these items from community members, if you choose, when not much is known about them.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Generally, we are looking for items that are handmade using knitting or crochet.  Please follow this link to read what we envisioned you might want to share when we built this resource: &lt;a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vTeiI7JDVzEhkjT2N6fo4abGkgRmliYQJBmklBsg_8E22XBQ24_eD77jBru_GQpS2B9u0pBHtA1--SY/pub" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"&gt;Share Your Treasures&lt;/a&gt;. You are not limited to what is described there; this resource is for you.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align:center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://digital.centerforknitandcrochet.org/contribution" class="button" target="_blank" title="Link to the online contribution page" rel="noreferrer noopener"&gt; Contribute&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Please be sure to read the &lt;a href="https://digital.centerforknitandcrochet.org/contribution/terms"&gt;Contribution Terms of Service&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="https://centerforknitandcrochet.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/FINAL_CKC-Community-Collection-Content-Provider-License-Agreement_11-29-2023.pdf"&gt;&lt;span&gt;Community Collection Content Provider Copyright License Agreement&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Please contact us at info@centerforknitandcrochet.org if you have questions, need assistance, or want to provide feedback and suggestions to improve this system.  We are always seeking ways to better serve the needs and interests of the community.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;</text>
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              <text>&lt;p&gt;Spindles, Peru&lt;/p&gt;</text>
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              <text>&lt;p&gt;Shafts: 12.5" Whorls: Height 3/4", Diameter 2" tapering to 1.25"&lt;/p&gt;</text>
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              <text>&lt;p&gt;Spindles, Peru, 2017.  &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;As an avid spinner, I was eager to bring home some spindles from our hiking trip to Peru in 2017.  Our guide helped me find them during a visit to a weaving and textile cooperative called the Asociacion Civil Apu Salkantay, Warmicuna de Mollepata, in Mollepata, Anta Province, Peru. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Spindles were not offered for sale in the weaving shop, but upon learning of my interest in spinning, one of the women went home and came back in a few minutes with a plastic grocery bag filled with loose shafts and whorls.  We fitted a few together and I purchased 3 spindles, with some raw Alpaca fiber to spin.  I understood that she made the spindles herself.  &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;These spindles are "low whorl" spindles.  The shafts are sticks that, according to Abby Franquemont (https://abbysyarns.com/2011/02/peruvian-spindles-my-spindles/) are peeled and whittled into shape. The whorls are turned on a lathe, with ornamental lines burned into the wood. The tag pictured is for a beautiful handwoven gray Alpaca shawl I purchased from the shop; I include it because it identifies the name and location of the Warmicuna de Mollepata weaving and textile cooperative.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;During our travels I saw men and women using spindles like these to spin Alpaca and wool yarns.  I enjoy having and spinning with these working momentos of our trip.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</text>
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              <text>&lt;p&gt;Jennifer Lindsay&lt;/p&gt;</text>
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