Vertical spinning wheel
Category
Furniture
Date
1700 - 1800
Materials
Oak, sycamore and elm.
Measurements
165 x 152 mm; 450 mm (Diameter); 330 mm (Length)
Place of origin
England
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Snowshill Manor and Garden, Gloucestershire
NT 1332086
Summary
Vertical hoop spinning wheel with double band driving system, from North West England or Scotland, circa eighteenth century. Elm table and treadle. Legs are possibly sycamore. Oak hoops at top of posts. Dark stain. A vertical hoop rim spinning wheel with a table having convolute shaped ends. The wheel has intermediate finials fitted between spokes on rim to give more momentum. The pin ended treadle is carried on wire hoops set into the two front legs. Appears to have been partly rebuilt at the top and is not fully functioning as the tension screw thread at the back is missing. Distaff is questionable. Origin of wheel thought to be North West England or Scotland. Wheels like this with arched features on the wheel posts are known in Scotland or Sweden. Missing one table finial. Condition is fair. Early NT ref SNO/DC9. Information and digital photograph supplied by David and Valerie Bryant 2006. In notebook no.4, page 84 (1340945.4) Charles Wade refers to: 'Spinning Room No. 19. English Wheel of fruit wood plum apple highly finished. This wheel has many spokes with turned pendent ornaments between, adding considerably to the impetus of the wheel, it has a hoop rim. English wheels are scarce as Flax spinning was left to Ireland. Wool in England' 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 87