I am selling a spinning wheel on behalf of a friend. She has had it for a while and never got round to learning to spin, and although she loves it, it takes up a lot of space and she would like it to go to a good home. It does need some TLC (the wood is dry, there are a few minor cracks, and the adjusters appear to be seized up), but is a rather beautiful wheel. Does anyone know what this is? If so, please get in touch, as before I can advertise it for sale, I could do with knowing what it is! It is, basically, a double-drive wheel with distaff, but I think the flyer and bobbin do not belong to it, and unusually the wheel is left-handed (wheel on the left, flyer and distaff on the right). If you can offer any suggestions for maker, country of origin, type of fibre it was intended for, age, or anything else, please contact me! I can send a few more pics by email if that would help. Many thanks.
I have rigged it up with a temporary drive belt (which gave me a headache as I don't normally use a double drive!), the wheel runs very smoothly, and it does spin, although the take-up is poor. Because the tension adjuster has seized up, I can't be sure if that's the issue, or because the belt is slipping on the flyer or bobbin, whether it's the rogue flyer/bobbin. The bobbin looks as if it has come from another wheel, as the wind-on pattern of the yarn which is on it does not correspond to the hooks on this flyer. Also the spindle length seems a bit too long for the space between the maidens, as you can perhaps see from the top view of the flyer.
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| Front view |
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| Flyer from above |
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| Close up |
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| Back view |
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