Spinning wheel signed JOEL FARNHAM, formerly at American Textile History Museum in Lowell, MA, now at The Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, MI, has a flat table on four legs with a broad treadle between two front legs. Two parallel rectangular posts set into the table hold a drive wheel with twelve spokes. On the left side two curved posts hold the mother-of-all with the bobbin/flyer unit. A threaded rod goes from there into the front wheel support post. The tops of the wheel support posts are turned and hold a distaff arm with a bird-cage distaff.
