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A wrist distaff is a unique aid for a spinner who works with roving rather than rolags. Rolags are short lengths of hand carded fiber and don't require much support during spinning, but roving, which is prepared on a drum carder or commercial carding machine, comes in long strips. With roving, a spinner can work either at the wheel or with a drop spindle for quite a while without stopping to lay in more fiber but the spinner needs her supply kept safely back from the twisting strand! Using the wrist distaff is simple. You tuck the end of some roving into the bracelet of your distaff, wind the supply around the tassel and attach the other end of the roving to your work in progress.