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Kromski Fantasia Spinning Wheel
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Kromski Fantasia Spinning Wheel

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What it spins, how it carries, and what comes in the box.

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The short answer

Kromski Fantasia Spinning Wheel is a single-drive, Scotch-tension spinning wheel from Kromski. It has two treadles, ratios from 5 to 8:1, a 10 mm orifice and a 5.7 kg weight.

Higher ratios lean toward finer yarn, lower toward thicker. Check the orifice against the thickest yarn you plan to spin.

At a glance

  • 5 to 8:1Ratios: flyer turns per wheel turn
  • 5.7 kgWeight
  • 2Treadles
  • 10 mmOpening for your yarn (orifice)
  • 46 cmDrive wheel across

What it means for your making

  • Ratios 5 and 8:1

    How many times the flyer turns for each turn of the wheel. Higher leans toward finer yarn, lower toward thicker.

  • Orifice 10 mm

    The opening your yarn feeds through. Check it against the thickest yarn you plan to spin.

  • Treadles 2

    One foot or two, whichever suits you.

  • Weight 5.7 kg

    What you carry if you take it to class or move it between rooms.

  • Tension Scotch tension

    How the yarn is drawn onto the bobbin as you spin.

  • Drive Single

    How the wheel’s band or bands turn the flyer and bobbin.

Where it sits

Scatter plot of 9 spinning wheels: weight across, top ratio up. Kromski Fantasia Spinning Wheel is at 5.7 kg and 8:1.51015202468Top ratio: flyer turns per wheel turnWeight, kgCountry Spinner 2: 8 kg, 5 :1Joy 2 Double Treadle: 5.1 kg, 14 :1Joy 2 Single Treadle: 5 kg, 14 :1Kiwi 3: 5.5 kg, 9.5 :1Traditional Single Drive: 8 kg, 17 :1Traveller 3: 5.8 kg, 14 :1Prelude Spinning Wheel: 4 kg, 13 :1S95 Victoria: 3.6 kg, 13 :1Fantasia Spinning Wheel: 5.7 kg, 8 :1Fantasia Spinning…S95 VictoriaScatter plot of 9 spinning wheels: weight across, top ratio up. Kromski Fantasia Spinning Wheel is at 5.7 kg and 8:1.5101520345678Top ratio: flyer turns per wheel turnWeight, kgCountry Spinner 2: 8 kg, 5 :1Joy 2 Double Treadle: 5.1 kg, 14 :1Joy 2 Single Treadle: 5 kg, 14 :1Kiwi 3: 5.5 kg, 9.5 :1Traditional Single Drive: 8 kg, 17 :1Traveller 3: 5.8 kg, 14 :1Prelude Spinning Wheel: 4 kg, 13 :1S95 Victoria: 3.6 kg, 13 :1Fantasia Spinning Wheel: 5.7 kg, 8 :1Fantasia Spinning…S95 Victoria

This one Other spinning wheels

Each dot is a spinning wheel whose maker lists both weight and top ratio. Kromski Fantasia Spinning Wheel sits at 5.7 kg and 8:1. Where a dot sits shows size and build, not how good a spinning wheel is.

See the numbers behind the chart
Spinning wheelWeight, kgTop ratio: flyer turns per wheel turn
S95 Victoria3.613
Prelude Spinning Wheel413
Joy 2 Single Treadle514
Joy 2 Double Treadle5.114
Kiwi 35.59.5
Fantasia Spinning Wheel (this one)5.78
Traveller 35.814
Country Spinner 285
Traditional Single Drive817

Your path

These are stages of what you might want to make, not a ranking. Each step is a different kind of project, and every one is a good place to be.

  1. Step 1

    Spinning away from home

    Yarn at a class, a guild meeting or a friend’s house, with a wheel that folds.

  2. Step 2

    Spinning at home

    Everyday yarn on a wheel that stays set up, with a standard orifice and bobbins.

    This one. 10 mm orifice.

  3. Step 3

    Big batches and thick yarn

    Thick and art yarns, and large amounts at a time.

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Full specifications

What it spins

SpecValue
DriveSingle
Orifice10 mm
Ratios5 and 8:1
TensionScotch tension
Treadles2

Size and carrying

SpecValue
Weight5.7 kg
Wheel diameter46 cm

Kromski’s Fantasia Spinning Wheel page.

Next steps: see Kromski’s page for the Fantasia Spinning Wheel.

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