Spinning wheel

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A typical spinning wheel.

A Spinning wheel is a piece of Crafting equipment used to spin fibres into strings. Spinning wheels are marked on the map by this symbol: .

The following table shows what fibres can be spun into what strings using a spinning wheel:

Fibres	String	Level Required	Cost per Experience (gp)	Members only?
Wool	Ball of wool	1	41.1	No
Black wool	Ball of black wool	1	41.1	No
Flax	Bow string	1	5.3	Yes
Sinew or tree roots	Crossbow string	10	7.4	Yes
Magic roots	Magic string	19	238.1	Yes
Yak Hair	Rope	30	3.7	Yes

Wearing a Seers' headband 2 increases the speed of using the spinning wheel in Seers' Village by 33%. Seers headband 3 increases the speed even more.

Locations

Locations of spinning wheels include:

• Barbarian Village, south of the longhall
• Crafting Guild, on the 1^st2^nd floor^[UK] floor
• Falador, east of Wayne's Chains, and south of the Castle
• Gower farm, directly north of the entrance
• Lletya, in the same room as the Lletya Seamstress
• Lumbridge, on the 1^st2^nd floor^[UK] floor
• Neitiznot, in a building on the south-eastern part of the island
• Menaphos, in the Port district.
• Prifddinas, north of the Max Guild in the Cadarn Clan district
• Rellekka, south-west building with an Anvil, a furnace, and a Pottery oven
• Seers' Village, on the 1^st2^nd floor^[UK] floor of the building adjacent to the cemetery
• Sophanem, south of the altar/bank
• Burthorpe, north of the cowpen, near the Burthorpe mine
• Tree Gnome Stronghold, north-east of the entrance, directly north of Mieliki Tapio's hunter shop
• Witchaven, south-east building

The most commonly used spinning wheels are the ones located in Seers' Village, Lumbridge Castle, Burthorpe, and Prifddinas / Lletya, mostly for their proximity to something that can be spun, i.e. Flax or Sheep's wool.

A noteworthy method of collecting flax to spin is to do so in the elven village of Lletya, which has the closest flax field to a bank. After banking large amounts of flax, the player may then choose to run back and forth between the spinning wheel on the North-Western part of the town, in the same building as the Lletya Seamstress.

Also worth considering is collecting flax in the Taverley flax field, south of Head Farmer Jones, and heading north to the crafting section of Burthorpe. This is helpful for players who don't meet the requirements to access Lletya.

Other choices are Prifddinas, Seers' Village and the Tree Gnome Stronghold, due to the close distance between the spinning wheels and banks. Also, these wheels are located near flax fields.

Best spinning wheel to use

There has been much dispute among crafters as to which spinning wheel is the best in RuneScape. Here is a list of advantages and disadvantages of the most useful wheels:

Lumbridge

• Advantages
  • Just below bank in Lumbridge Castle
  • Easy to get to (teleportation).
  • Much better for smaller loads of flax.

• Disadvantages
  • Steps (extend the time between bank & wheel).
  • Nowhere near a flax field.
  • Not as close to a sheep field as Burthorpe.

Neitiznot

• Advantages
  • Technically closest spinning wheel to a bank, as there is no blockage in between (both doors of the spinning wheel's house and the bank are "jammed open").
  • To get to the bank is just one click away.
  • The yak field is very close, yaks drop hair which can be made into rope at a wheel.
  • It is scarcely populated, which allows there to be hardly any discussion with others.
  • Much better for serious crafters with large loads.

• Disadvantages
  • The closest flax fields are outside of Rellekka, and in Miscellania.

Seer's Village

• Advantages
  • Close to a flax field and a bank.
  • You can wear the Seer's headband 2 or better to speed up spinning by 33%.
    • The time saved under ideal conditions (low ping, no closed doors, etc.) makes this spinning wheel the most efficient, timewise.
• Disadvantages
  • Have to click on door and ladder to get to the wheel.

Taverley/Burthorpe

• Advantages
  • Close to a flax field and a bank, very good when collecting flax and then spinning it to bowstrings.
  • Located in the starting area, useful for new players.
  • Closer to a sheep field than Lumbridge
• Disadvantages
  • Wheel is father away from a bank than the wheels in Neitiznot and Lumbridge.
  • Access requires partial completion of The Fremennick Trials.

Prifddinas

• Advantages
  • Very close to a flax field
  • Next to a Loom
  • Easy accessible via Max Guild teleport / Crystal teleport seed to the Cadarn Clan area

• Disadvantages
  • Nearest bank is on the far side of the Crwys Clan
  • Plague's End is a requirement

Gallery

A player using a spinning wheel

The spinning wheel in the Crafting Guild

A special crystal spinning wheel, located in Prifddinas

A spinning wheel located in Daemonheim

Trivia

• Prior to 11 April 2012, it was impossible to get a strange rock whilst crafting via the spinning wheel.