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Pair on left: all wood parts except eyelets to hold pulleys
Pair on right: has a long metal screw to hold the large pulley together.

42 teeth, crude, press fit, holes go all the way through, long teeth

90 inches maximum circumference for skeins. Upright is notched with a spring clip to hold in position. Top and bottom cages have 8 bars. Each has an iron spindle threaded at the outer end with a nut. Bottom spindle end goes through.

a long piece of wool, wedge-shaped, slightly bowed lengthwise, both edges marked as though warp threads had worn them

Niddy-noddy; wood, mortise and tenoned. Round central shaft widens to beveled section then to flat, rectangle at end. A flat, slightly curved cross-bar is affixed with mortise and tenon joint at each end of shaft; cross-bars are set at right angles…

Trestle footed base has two uprights that are joined
by a cross beam at the mid-section and by a table with two lengthwise slots at the top. A device for breaking the flax pivots between the two slots in the table.