From there you’ll want to move on to spinning the wool into yarn, which you can do with either a wheel or an electric motor.

The Wolcott Mill Fiber Fair on March 30 was an opportunity for people to see the entire process of making wool into yarn. Beginning with the shearing of the sheep, to spinning the yarn and creating ...

Some 12,000-year-old stones have been discovered, which may be the oldest example of wheel-like tools. The spindle whorls would feature in a wheel and axle arrangement to allow the spinning of ...

The wooden spinning wheel is a copy of an C18th wheel. This would have been used to spin woollen yarn. The spinning wheel was replaced by machinery - firstly the Spinning Jenny and then the ...

This might sound like we're spinning you a yarn but this week's Everyday Artist ... My husband bought me my wheel about two years ago, with some redundancy money. They can cost hundreds, but ...

Item No. 1287 was submitted and discovered by Sharon Wolford, of Ravenna, Ohio, in her elderly aunt’s home. It appears to be ...

This is an English spinning wheel in the Flemish style. Spinning formed an important part of the Lakeland economy and Kendal's town motto, 'Pannus mihi panis' which translates as 'cloth (or wool ...