18th Century Yarn-Winding Tools

Various types of clock reels, yarn swifts, and niddy-noddies (hand reels).

• Miniature winding-tools from a dollhouse, 17th-18th century
• Wooden hand reels from Lanarkshire, Scotland, 18th century
• The hard-working mother by Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, 1740
• Diagram of Fil, Roüet, Dévidoirs in the Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, s.n. Fil et laine, 1765
• GUCO 1625, a niddy-noddy from Maine, marked "1777"
• PMA 1938-6-1, a measuring reel, Pennsylvania, c. 1780-1800
• A yarn-winder from Dalry parish in Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland, 18th or 19th century