Hand painted drop spindle

We keep bees and they have a happy hum when busy in the flower beds collecting honey. As I am often outside spinning of dyeing fibre this was a match made in heaven.

The spindle is a top whorl and weighs c. 30g/1oz. I find this a useful weight for most types of fibre. It can be adapted to a bottom whorl spindle by moving the hook to the other end of the spindle. It has been hand painted with a design of bees and lavender on both surfaces of the whorl.