Upright, single treadle spinning wheel, freestanding sitting distaff, and spindle, all from Hungary.
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Spindle next to top of distaff with flax.
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Spooling wheel marked “H. Z.” Wooden, looks somewhat like a horizontal spinning wheel. It has a boxy structure on the table where the bobbin and flyer or spindle would normally be and has no treadle.
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Spinning wheel marked “H. Zuber.” Single treadle, bobbin and flyer wheel with attached basket distaff.
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Carlton’s free-standing umbrella swift.
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Rebecca’s free-standing umbrella swift.
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Strickland Silent Spinner. A relatively small, single treadle, upright, bobbin and flyer spinning wheel. Most of the wheel is wooden; the drive wheel is metal.
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Detail of bobbin/flyer unit on the Strickland Silent Spinner.
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American Traveler wheel, front view. An upright, double treadle, bobbin and flyer wheel designed, patented, and manufactured by Doloria Chapin in New York State in the late 1970s.
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Doloria Chapin’s Yarn Guide, Patent 4,090,347. A system for guiding yarn onto a bobbin.
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Decorator: non-functional spinning wheel. Appears to be a wooden, single-treadle, bobbin and flyer wheel.
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Henry Miller lever-action spinning wheel.
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Miller’s patent #71,897 for a lever-action spinning wheel.
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Francis Nixon tabletop spinning wheel. Small metal wheel with gearing mechanism.
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Nixon’s patent #88,065 for geared tabletop spinning wheel.
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Susan’s Swiss wheel; small, wooden, upright, bobbin and flyer flax wheel.
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Example #2 of an inscribed hackle, hatchel, or hetchel. Inscription on example #2 reads: “MAY THE 18 AD 1797 JOHN MATHEWSON LYDA MATHEWSON STAY AT HOME AND USE ME WELL.”
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Great wheel built by David Bryant.
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Great wheel marked “R. TOWNLEY3.”
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Great wheel marked “N. R. HILLS.”
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Two Brantford-style great wheels.
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Great wheel marked “W. DINNIN.”
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Miles Winchester great wheel.
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Peter’s charkha from rear showing plying arrangement. Charka top has two full bobbins set up on vertical pins. The spun fiber on the bobbins feeds on to a horizontal bobbin and flyer mechanism.
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Incomplete example marked “SS.” Upright bobbin and flyer wheel with two asymmetric drive wheels. This example is missing one of its treadles.
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Double treadle upright wheel with asymmetric double drive wheels. Marked “W. KILBOURN.”
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Linda’s Bageshwari Charkha. A single treadle, wooden, table-like spinning wheel.
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Folk wheel side view. A rough-looking, wooden, double treadle, upright, bobbin and flyer wheel.
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Ancient glass distaffs. Three glass rod-shaped distaffs with a loop of glass at one end and varying styles of finials on the other end. One distaff has a free ring of glass around the shaft of the distaff.
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Reel marked “E. FROST” front view. A free-standing, four-armed wooden reel.
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Hatchel with eagle design.
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Horizontal arrangement reel/swift patented by James Forman Palmer, 1867. A metal reel/swift is clamped to a table. The four arms of the reel/swift are parallel to the plane of the table.
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Close-up of bobbin/flyer arrangement on parlor wheel from Germany.
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C. Norman Hicks’ “Debbi” wheel. Wooden, upright, double treadle wheel with adjustable bobbin and flyer position.
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Wheel marked “MJY 407.” Upright wooden bobbin and flyer wheel, double treadle, with secondary accelerating wheel and distaff.