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Round wooden handle holds flat oblong shaped distaff with parallel notches on each side. Decorative lines cut or traced on it. Decoration: Chip carving on handle. Patterns incised around the edge and in the center of distaff.

Semi-circle of wood has 13 holes in it to hold spindles. A piece of bentwood is set into board and serves as handle. There are eight spindles present. They are wooden shafts of varying lengths tapered at both ends. Six have carved patterns, five…

A rectangular table rests on four splayed legs. The treadle is set into a pivoting treadle bar, which fits between two legs. A flat, narrow footman connects the treadle to the drive wheel axle. A pair of wheel posts set into the table are reinforced…

Spinning wheel; vertical with bobbin/flyer above wheel, treadle. The round table rests on four splayed legs, with four caps on table surface. The treadle is set into a pivoting bar between two legs. A stiff, wire footman connects the treadle to the…

Spinning wheel; horizontal, bobbin/flyer, treadle
Slanted rectangular table rests on three splayed legs, with a stretcher between two legs. The treadle fits into a pivoting bar between two legs. A stiff wire footman connects the treadle to the…

Spinning wheel; horizontal, spindle. Rectangular
table rests on three splayed legs. Slanted wheel
post fits through table. Drive wheel has ten
spokes, and a flat rim constructed in one piece.
The drive wheel axle fits into the wheel post. Two…

Barn loom found in an attic in Greenfield, NH

Missing spindle assembly

Spinning wheel; horizontal, spindle. Rectangular table rests on three splayed legs. Slanted wheel post fits through table. Drive wheel has ten spokes, and a flat rim, constructed in one piece. The drive wheel axle fits into the wheel post. Two…

A Scottish wheel from Galashiels, used both as a pirn-winder and wool wheel. The turning handle, sit-down height and wide wheel rim are closer to the medieval than to the American wool wheels.