This is Lee discussing his research into making prostheses from local fibres in the far east. He wants to know if we can spin pineapple fibre which is plentiful in the locality he is interested in. He brought along a prostheses and explained his idea of making them using a knitted sock that fits over the amputee’s stump and is fused into a perfectly fitting shape with resin. His difficulty was how to  get the fibre into a state suitable to make a flexible yet strong and stable ‘sock’ shape. We were enthralled – most people took some of his fibre to spin. It is the nature of flax which is traditionally spun from a distaff. Rosemary, a drop spindle spinner spun some on her turkish spindle – I made a makeshift distaff and spun some on a traditional wheel. Others have taken the fibre home to work on. It made for a very unusual and inspiring Woolly Day – he is going to get some more fibre. Spinning on drop spindles from a distaff tucked under one arm would be fairly straightforward – we know it was done in 1300s in the UK.