Yarn winder
Category
Machinery and industrial devices
Date
Unknown
Materials
Metal, Textile, Wood
Measurements
850 x 680 mm
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Lavenham, Suffolk
NT 117317.25
Summary
A table-clamped yarn winder also known as an umbrella swift winder. This collapsible machine converts skeins of yarn into balls. A skein of yarn is placed over the open 'umbrella' which rotates as the user winds the yarn into a ball. Clothworker's Exhibition.
Provenance
Acquired with a grant from the Clothworkers Guild in 1982.