Our more than 90 Back Issues contain a wealth of information that is useful to spinners, spinning-wheel collectors, and textile researchers. This information can also help curators at historical societies and museums to identify some of the objects in their collections.
Back issues of The Spinning Wheel Sleuth are available in print [#71 to present]. Earlier issues are available digitally as compilations on Flash Drives.
If you’d prefer to order by mail, we also have a printable PDF order form.
Not sure which back issues you need? Check the Issue Index (PDF).
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Issue #108 – April 2020
• The McIntosh Family of Spinning-Wheel Makers
• To Spin on a Swedish Wheel
• A Horizontal Moving-Spindle Wheel
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Issue #107 – January 2020
• Hannibal Thomson and His “Widely Known and Sought For” Wheels
• More about Moswolt Spinning Wheels
• A Wilson and Fairbanks Oddity
• Paul Hopkin’s Spinning Wheel
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Issue #106 – October 2019
• A Study of a Very Fine Wheel
• Moswolt and Humanus-Haus Spinning Wheels
• Twin Spinning Wheels
• Inquiry: A Puzzling Wheel
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Issue #105 – July 2019
• An Accelerated Canadian Production Wheel Marked FM
• Ouellet Family of Spinning Wheel Makers
• O. DION Spinning Wheels
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Issue #104 – April 2019
• A Spinning Wheel From the Silk Route
• Spin-Well/Made-Well Drum Carders: A World First
• Whence Came the Journey Wheel
• Inquiry: An Unusual Spindle
• In Memoriam: Peter Teal
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Issue #103 – January 2019
• Spin-Well/Made-Well Spinning Wheels
• Ernest Mason, Spinning-Wheel Maker
• A Swift and Two Small Spindle Wheels
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Issue #102 – October 2018
• Gylland Spinning Wheels — Part Two
• A Mysterious “Asian Wheel”
• The Spinner’s Cottage
• A Brief History of Hand Spinning
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Issue #101 – July 2018
• Gylland Spinning Wheels — Part One
• An Ernst Mechelke Spinning Wheel from Wisconsin
• The Marshfield School of Weaving Digital Catalog Project
• Old School Wool and Weaving Center
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Issue #100 – April 2018
• A Family of Wheels of Unknown Origin
• Mystery of the “Moon Over Spoon” Great Wheel
• A Great Wheel from the Late Hippy Period
• Two Unusual Norwegian Spinning Wheels
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Issue #99 – January 2018
• Some Estonian Spinning Wheels
• A Spinning Wheel Marked I. IVES
• Patent Models of Spinning Wheels: An Overview
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Issue #98 – October 2017
• William D. Fitz/Fitch, Turner of Albemarle County, Virginia
• A Spinning Wheel With A Family History
• My Hebridean Spinning Wheel
• Tiny Textile Tools Travel from Bangkok to Los Angeles
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Issue #97 – July 2017
• The Scutching Wheel and Rotary Brake
• A 1754 (?) Pennsylvania Flax Wheel
• WWI Friction-Drive Wheel Found in New Zealand
• Manville Hagen, 20th-Century Minnesota Spinning-Wheel Maker
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Issue #96 – April 2017
• A Lady’s Wheel From Stockton-on-Tees
• Niddy-Noddies Through the Ages
• Flax Tools
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Issue #95 – January 2017
• A Square-Frame Great Wheel in Nova Scotia
• The Schrock Family Trolley Spinning Wheel
• Model Mystery Solved
• Herring Spinning Wheels
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Issue #94 – October 2016
• Reels by Horton Row
• Reuben Row
• A Compact Click Reel
• A Well-Loved Swedish Heirloom Wheel
• Scandinavian Turned-Table Wheels
• A Norwegian-Style Wheel With Metal Spokes
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Issue #93 – July 2016
• Castle Wheels in Lancaster County, PA
• The Kinsey Family of Spinning-Wheel Makers
• The Wind Mountain Spinner
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Issue #92 – April 2016
• Alan Brenkley: A Colorful Spinning-Wheel Maker in New Zealand
• Main’s and Bryce’s Patent Wheels
• A Track Wheel Model
• A Wheel Marked IOHN BROWN and a Postcard
• A Swiss Flax Wheel Donation
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Issue #91 – January 2016
• An Unusual Boudoir Spinning Wheel
• Granville Swanney, the Last Maker of Orkney Wheels
• Two Old Orkney Spinning Wheels
• Spanish Colonial Spinning Wheels in San Diego, California
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Issue #90 – October 2015
• A Great Wheel From Virginia
• Identifying a Phineas Wood Great Wheel
• Addendum: Another Vermont Great Wheel
• The Morison Story
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Issue #89 – July 2015
• Another Variation on Double-Wheel, Double Treadle Spinning Wheels
• A Pendulum Wheel by Horton Row
• Update on Rare Double-Treadle Accelerated Spinning Wheels
• Finding Elie Laporte
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Issue #88 – April 2015
• Ancient Distaffs
• A Clock Reel Marked E. FROST 1823
• A Decorated Hatchel and A Dual-Purpose Device
• An Intriguing Flyer/Bobbin Arrangement
• A “Debbi” Wheel by C. Norman Hicks
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Issue #87 – January 2015
• Rare Double-Treadle Accelerated Spinning Wheel
• Marks on Patented Pendulum Wheels
• A Double-Flyer Charkha Excerpts from “The Bageshwari Charkha”
• Folk Wheel HP S713
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Issue #86 – October 2014
• Building a Great Wheel
• Two New York Great Wheels
• Ontario Wheels with Lathe-Turned Tables
• Miles Winchester Great Wheel
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Issue #85 – July 2014
• Henry Miller’s Improvement on Wheel
• Francis Nixon Patented Spinning Wheel
• A Swiss Spinning Wheel Found in California
• Inscribed Hetchels
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Issue #84 – April 2014
• Beardsley Sanford and Alpheus Webster, Men of Many Wheels
• Tilden and Pierce Great Wheels and Skein Winders
• Textile Tools Revealed by Sudden Death
• Locating Canadian Patents
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Issue #83 – January 2014
• The Strickland Silent Spinner
• The American Traveler Wheel
• Identifying the SWSO
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Issue #82 – October 2013
• A Charles Regeimbal Spinning Wheel From Northwest Minnesota
• A Papier-mâché Spinning Wheel
• Another Spinning Wheel in a Cabinet
• The Story of the Mohawk Valley Hetchel
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Issue #81 – July 2013
• Horton Row, Ontario Wheel Maker
• Update: Londonderry, NH, Wheels
• Rullman and Barker’s “Iowa Spinner”
• Gauthier French Folding Wheel
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Issue #80 – April 2013
• The “McIntosh” Spinning Wheel Adventure
• The 1798 McIntosh Double-Flyer Wheel
• Flat-Rim Spinning Wheels
• A Turkish-Style Spinning Wheel With Boxwood Parts
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Issue #79 – January 2013
• Variations on a Joel Farnham Flax Wheel
• The Farnham Family of Owego, NY
• Restoring an Azel Wilder Great Wheel
• The Wilders of Keene, NH
• Inquiry: Was This Wheel Made by Wilder or Pierce?
• Thoughts on 20 Years of SWS
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