Cherry is reddish pink when new but will darken more and more with age. The texture is smooth and close grained. Used in fine furniture for it's beauty.

Our Best selling item. Our swifts are made by hand in our own shop. They are individually cut, sanded, and finshed. A blend of tung oil and linseed oil is applied to seal and protect the wood. It disassembles completely into 4 pieces and the pegs are removeable. This allows for easy storage and makes them very portable for travel. We also include a muslin bag for storing and transporting your swift. The pegs are adjustable to 5 positions along the arms to adapt to various sizes of hanks. The dimensions it will accomodate range from about 29 inches to 72 inches. Changing for different sizes of skeins could not be easier either, simply move the pegs to different holes and you're ready to go. We also enclose a nylon washer to use on the center peg for a smoother operation.

When used with a ball winder you can make neat perfectly tensioned balls of yarn. They can also be used to wind a skein from your yarn as when recycling or unknitting a previously made item. Spinners, and dyers will find this a useful application as well. I am not a spinner myself, but as a knitter and dyer, I can vouch for its use as a handy tool for skeinwinding. It's adjustability is invaluable for these uses since the yarn will shrink after washing or dyeing and when you need to put the skein back on to wind a ball, you can adjust for the new size of the skein.

We added for our customers convenience a ball winder. Save on shipping when you buy a swift and a ball winder in the same order. Enter the coupon code BW-SP for $2.00 discount.