Sloping spinning wheel
Category
Furniture
Date
Unknown
Materials
Pine, fruitwood, beechwood and oak.
Measurements
400 x 133 mm; 310 mm (Diameter); 406 mm (Length)
Place of origin
Germany
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Snowshill Manor and Garden, Gloucestershire
NT 1332082
Summary
Sloping bed spinning wheel with double band driving mechanism. Originating from Germany or Bavaria from the nineteenth century. Oak rim. Table, tension screw beechwood or sycamore. Spokes, maidens and mother of all fruitwood (?). Bobbin is pine. Dark stain. A small Saxony sloping bed wheel. Table had cut out to accomodate split turned. Patricia Baines quotes it as a small compact wheel of a type seen in Germany or Bavaria. It could originate from this area but there is no definative evidence. Missing two wheel post pegs under table. Bobbin possibly not original. Front wheel post peg may be a replacement. Condition is fair, some woodworm damage in table and treadle. NT early ref SNO.DC4. Information and digital photograph supplied by David and Valerie Bryant 2006. In notebook no.4, page 90 (1340945.4) Charles Wade refers to: 'Top Gallant No. 25. Irish form, unusually small wheel. The base board set at a very steep angle, elaborately turned'. Includes sketch with dimensions.
Provenance
Given to the National Trust with Snowshill Manor in 1951 by Charles Paget Wade.
References
Wade, 1944: Charles Paget Wade, Contents of Snowshill Manor. Volume 4 First and Second Floor, 1944, Page 90