|
These links demonstrate a range of tools used to wind thread or yarn once it has been spun, but before it is used for weaving or sewing.
I have used modern names for these tools below, so that it will be easier for textile workers to draw parallels to their contemporary form and function.
NIDDY-NODDY – a tool that makes skeins from yarn. Modern niddy-noddies consist of a central bar with crossbars at each end, offset from each other by 90°; note that several of the examples below show the two crossbars parallel to each other.
- Mural cycle showing the processing of silk and flax at the Kanonikerhaus in Constance, Germany, c. 1320: a woman winds (linen?) thread
- An ape winds wool, Voeux du paon (PML G.24, fol. 15r), c. 1350
- A woman winds thread from a spindle, The Hours of Charlotte of Savoy (PML M.1004, fol. 96r), c. 1420-1425
- Veturia, De mulieribus claris (BNF Fr. 599, fol. 48v), 15th-16th century
- Peasants by the Hearth by Pieter Aertsen, 1560s
- Man and Woman by the Spinning Wheel by Pieter Pietersz, c. 1570
- An old man by Lucas Kilian
REEL – These sometimes appear as spoked wheels, and in some cases are mislabeled as spinning wheels.
- Depiction of a weavers’ workshop, 14th century
- Mural cycle showing the processing of silk and flax at the Kanonikerhaus in Constance, Germany, c. 1320: women winding (silk?) thread, a woman transfers thread from a drop-spindle to a thread-winder
- The Virgin at the Spinning-Wheel (see details here and here), 1420-1430
- Mary weaving, a book of hours (PML M.453, fol. 24r), c. 1420-1435
- Border, The Hours of Margaret of Orleans (BNF Latin 1156 B, fol. 89), c. 1426
- The Holy Family, c. 1450
- Werenlein Reinmon, Mendel Hausbuch (Amb. 317.2, fol. 78v), 1457
- The female twin winding wool, The City of God (MMW 10 A 11, fol. 235r), c. 1475-1480
- Epicharis, De mulieribus claris (BNF Fr. 599, fol. 79v), 15th-16th century
- Tapestry: The labors of wool, c. 1500
- Detail from Mary at the loom from a fresco at the Church of St. Primus and Felicianus, Slovenia, 1504
- Yarn-winders from a dollhouse, southern Germany, 17th-18th century
BOBBIN-WINDER – A small hand-powered machine that winds thread onto a bobbin, spindle, or clewe. These machines appear in weaving contexts, though similar bobbins appear in sewing & embroidering contexts as well.
|
|
