1991.178.92 - Spinning Wheel, Canadian Production, Paradis

1991.178.92 - Spinning Wheel, Canadian Production, Paradis

Spinning equipment

1991.178.92

Spinning wheel; horizontal, bobbin/flyer, treadle, painted yellow. A tapered rectangular table rests on three splayed legs. The treadle board is set into pivoting rod between two legs. A flat, narrow footman connects the treadle to the drive wheel axle. The mother-of-all, with a handle on the lower bar, is attached to a block in a notch in the table, which is tensioned by a metal screw with a nut. The bobbin/flyer is complete and is designed for a doubled drive-band. The two wheel posts are set into the table. The post on the crank side of the wheel is reinforced by a short brace also set into the table. The drive wheel has 12 spokes; the rim, with two grooves, is constructed in four sections. Turnings on legs and wheel posts.

overall : horizontal 39.5 in. x vertical 40.5 in. x depth 26 in.

Wood; metal; yellow paint

Late 19th-early 20th centuries

Canada : QE

Paradis (marked)

Good

Also known as "Great Canadian Wheel" or "Canadian Production Wheel." #92 in Cummer's book

Joan Whittaker Cummer, A Book of Spinning Wheels (Portsmouth, NH: Peter E. Randall Publisher, 1994), p. 200-201. Photo and brief essay on spinning wheel. Bill Ralph, "Canadian Tilt-Tension Production Wheels", The Spinning Wheel Sleuth, Issue #5 May 1994 Judith Buxton Keenlyside, Selected Canadian Spinning Wheels In Perspective: An Analytical Approach, National Museum of Man Mercury Series, History Division, Paper No. 30 (Ottawa: National Museums of Canada), p. 159ff, 273ff.