Spinning wheel
Category
Machinery and industrial devices
Date
1850
Materials
Oak
Collection
Killerton, Devon
NT 1355488
Summary
Spinning Wheel - oak, treadle wheel. 1850 (circa)
Provenance
believed to have been made for a Mrs.Fraser, wife of the then .......? on the Arisaig Estate, Inverness-shire. Given to donors mother on Mrs Fraser's death in the 1920s. Wheel was used by donor's family for spinning and her mother was instrumental in teaching the women of Arisaig to spin in the 1930s because they had lost the art.