1991.178.64 - Spinning Wheel, Horizontal, Bobbin and Flyer

1991.178.64 - Spinning Wheel, Horizontal, Bobbin and Flyer

Spinning equipment

1991.178.64

Spinning wheel; horizontal, bobbin/flyer on raised table, treadle. A rectangular table rests on four splayed legs. The treadle board set into pivoting bar between two legs. The flat narrow footman connects the treadle to the drive wheel axle. Two wheel posts pass through the table. The drive wheel axle rests in leather-lined slots in wheel posts. The drive wheel has ten spokes; the rim, with one wide groove, is constructed in four sections. The mother-of-all is slotted into a small upper table which rests on two uprights set into lower table. Two horizontal, parallel rods, with threaded ends, connect the upper table to the two wheel posts, and are secured by pins in the upper table. The maidens are vertical. The bobbin/flyer is complete and is designed for a doubled drive-band. The tensioning screw passes through the upper table end. Two short knobs fit into the lower table. Turnings on spokes, posts, and bars.

overall: horizontal 36 in. x vertical 33. 75 in. x depth 14 in.

Wood; metal

19th century

USA

Good

Shows strong German or Norwegian influence but thought to have been made in the United States. #64 in Cummer's book

Joan Whittaker Cummer, A Book of Spinning Wheels (Portsmouth, NH: Peter E. Randall Publisher, 1994), p. 144-145. Photo and brief essay on spinning wheel.