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If you mean the golden yarn Rumplestilskin spun from straw...it's linen yarn spun from the stalks of flax plants. There are examples of fine linen yarn dating back to ancient Egypt. The yarn from the fairy tail wasn't really gold, but it was nearly as valuable as gold and the plants it came from were indeed golden in appearance (as straw often is). Part of the reason it was so dear is that it is so difficult to work with. First the outer skin is split when it is flailed by throwing bundles on the ground and stomping all over it. Then it is retted either by laying it out in the weather for a month or two or by soaking or boiling to loosen the bast fibers. Then you scutch it by beating the snot out of it with a stick. Scutching further breaks down the bonds between the outer skin, inner fibers, and core. The stems are next drawn through a heckling comb which separates out the desired inner fibers, removing the outer skin and core. Finally you're ready to spin. Wet the flax and dress a distaff with it. Remember you're still dealing with fine strands of straw just a couple of feet long. They must be pulled into the spinning wheel just a few at a time. The process is smelly, wet, and hard on the hands.

The fact that Rumplestilskin could do all that in one night surely shows he could indeed work magic.

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