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Last time I dried some spun wool I tied it to the clothes line and tied a weight to the bottom. This worked well at keeping the yarn straight, but it unfortunately put a fold in the skein, this I didn't like. Soooo. I had a brain wave about how to solve the problem. I mentioned to DH what my plans were and he said "Hey we have some of that pipe down the back". Yeehaa. So I cut two wedges out of the plastic plumming pipe as you can see in picture #1 so that it could be attached to the clothes line by twine, but be secure and not move (pic #2).

So then I attached the second rope to the pipe then I added my skeins of home spun wool.  Which is a simple process, just unhook the ready made loop from the slot and you can add your yarn.

Mmmm a slight problem with the skeins being different lengths, so I cut some more plastic pipe into lengths about 30cm long, cut a little wedge out of each end

I could then weight each skein individually.  In this case I used an old plastic shopping bag and some freshly picked mandarine's.  But I can use what ever is on hand at the time be it kids toys, lemons or even garden rocks (as long as it is not too heavy for the skein it doesn't really matter).