Our more than 100 Back Issues contain a wealth of information that is useful to spinners, spinning-wheel collectors, and textile researchers. This information can also help curators at historical societies and museums to identify some of the objects in their collections.
Back issues of The Spinning Wheel Sleuth are available in print [#71 to present]. Earlier issues are available digitally as compilations on Flash Drives.
If you’d prefer to order by mail, we also have a printable PDF order form.
Not sure which back issues you need? Check the Issue Index (PDF).
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Issue #124 – July 2024
• Flax Distaffs: Swedish Textile Tradition With Influences
• The Hinders Farm Wheel: A Tale of Rescue and Restoration in Estonia – Part 2
• A Spinning Wheel From Saskatchewan
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Issue #123 – April 2024
• The Hinders Farm Wheel: A Tale of Rescue and Restoration in Estonia- Part 1 Exile
• Documenting Canada’s Great Wheels and Spindle Patent Makers
• A New Brunswick Patented Wheel Unearthed
• A Counterbalanced Moving-Spindle Wheel
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Issue #122 – January 2024
• Samuel Thorp & Robert Webster Spinning Wheels
• A Surprising Great Wheel
• Nute Spinning-Wheel Factory
• Thoughts on Terminology
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Issue #121 – October 2023
• At Last: A Spinning-Wheel Maker for the Mahantongo Valley, PA
• Precious Small European (?) Wheel
• Something “Old” and Something “New” for Measuring Homespun
• The Niks, an Intriguing Estonian Textile Tool
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Issue #120 – July 2023
• An Unusual Tension Design on CPWs (Canadian Production Wheels)
• Uncovering a Spinning-Wheel Maker
• In Memoriam: Michael Holcomb
• An Antique Spinning-Wheel Collectors’ Group
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Issue #119 – April 2023
• John Planta Spinning Wheel
• A Brantford-Style Spinning Wheel by T. ELLIS
• On the Feathers, or Fly, or Wings
• In Memoriam: Susie Seay Henzie
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Issue #118 – January 2023
• Spinning Wheels From Moi, Norway
• A New Echota Great Wheel
• The Distaff Is a Woman
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Issue #117 – July 2022
• Sit Down and Spin at the Chair
• Appalachian Tabletop Wheel
• A Traditional Distaff From Peru
• Spinning Wheels by Earl Oman
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Issue #116 – April 2022
• A Screw-Tension Great Wheel
• The Life and Times of Thomas Wright
• The Columbine Spinning Wheel
• In Memoriam: Carlton Stickney
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Issue #115 – January 2022
• Double Flax Break
• How a 300-Year-Old Flax Comb Returned Home
• Reeling Pins
• Bobbin Winders for Bobbin Lace
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Issue #114 – October 2021
• Two Styles of Great Wheels From Virginia
• A Comparison of Accelerating Wheel Heads on Canadian Wheels
• More About Azel Wilder
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Issue #113 – July 2021
• The Search for J. Platt
• Thomas Jamieson: A Brechin Spinning-Wheel Maker
• Metal Spinning Wheels from Sweden
• In Memoriam: Sue Burns and Grant Betzner
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Issue #112 – April 2021
• Dominy Family Spinning Wheels
• Squirrel-Cage Swift Holes
• A Wheel With a Three-Armed Flyer
• Tension Screw on the Tabletop
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Issue #111 – January 2021
• Hjulbäck Spinning Wheels
• Corn-Husk Braiding for Great Wheel Spindle Heads
• A Remarkable Resource in Canada
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Issue #110 – October 2020
• A Tabletop Spinning Wheel
• Restoring a Little Spinning Wheel
• Painted Reel With a Clicker and a Clock
• Inquiry: A Wheel Marked RT 1847
• Errata: Maine Wheel Makers
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Issue #109 – July 2020
• Tension Systems on Great Wheels
• The Bedwell Wheels of Tennessee
• A “Granny Greer Wheel”
• Restoring a “Log Top” Double-Flyer Wheel
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Issue #108 – April 2020
• The McIntosh Family of Spinning-Wheel Makers
• To Spin on a Swedish Wheel
• A Horizontal Moving-Spindle Wheel
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Issue #107 – January 2020
• Hannibal Thomson and His “Widely Known and Sought For” Wheels
• More about Moswolt Spinning Wheels
• A Wilson and Fairbanks Oddity
• Paul Hopkin’s Spinning Wheel
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Issue #106 – October 2019
• A Study of a Very Fine Wheel
• Moswolt and Humanus-Haus Spinning Wheels
• Twin Spinning Wheels
• Inquiry: A Puzzling Wheel
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Issue #105 – July 2019
• An Accelerated Canadian Production Wheel Marked FM
• Ouellet Family of Spinning Wheel Makers
• O. DION Spinning Wheels
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Issue #104 – April 2019
• A Spinning Wheel From the Silk Route
• Spin-Well/Made-Well Drum Carders: A World First
• Whence Came the Journey Wheel
• Inquiry: An Unusual Spindle
• In Memoriam: Peter Teal
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Issue #103 – January 2019
• Spin-Well/Made-Well Spinning Wheels
• Ernest Mason, Spinning-Wheel Maker
• A Swift and Two Small Spindle Wheels
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Issue #102 – October 2018
• Gylland Spinning Wheels — Part Two
• A Mysterious “Asian Wheel”
• The Spinner’s Cottage
• A Brief History of Hand Spinning
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Issue #101 – July 2018
• Gylland Spinning Wheels — Part One
• An Ernst Mechelke Spinning Wheel from Wisconsin
• The Marshfield School of Weaving Digital Catalog Project
• Old School Wool and Weaving Center
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Issue #100 – April 2018
• A Family of Wheels of Unknown Origin
• Mystery of the “Moon Over Spoon” Great Wheel
• A Great Wheel from the Late Hippy Period
• Two Unusual Norwegian Spinning Wheels
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Issue #99 – January 2018
• Some Estonian Spinning Wheels
• A Spinning Wheel Marked I. IVES
• Patent Models of Spinning Wheels: An Overview
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Issue #98 – October 2017
• William D. Fitz/Fitch, Turner of Albemarle County, Virginia
• A Spinning Wheel With A Family History
• My Hebridean Spinning Wheel
• Tiny Textile Tools Travel from Bangkok to Los Angeles
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Issue #97 – July 2017
• The Scutching Wheel and Rotary Brake
• A 1754 (?) Pennsylvania Flax Wheel
• WWI Friction-Drive Wheel Found in New Zealand
• Manville Hagen, 20th-Century Minnesota Spinning-Wheel Maker
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Issue #96 – April 2017
• A Lady’s Wheel From Stockton-on-Tees
• Niddy-Noddies Through the Ages
• Flax Tools
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Issue #95 – January 2017
• A Square-Frame Great Wheel in Nova Scotia
• The Schrock Family Trolley Spinning Wheel
• Model Mystery Solved
• Herring Spinning Wheels
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Issue #94 – October 2016
• Reels by Horton Row
• Reuben Row
• A Compact Click Reel
• A Well-Loved Swedish Heirloom Wheel
• Scandinavian Turned-Table Wheels
• A Norwegian-Style Wheel With Metal Spokes
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Issue #93 – July 2016
• Castle Wheels in Lancaster County, PA
• The Kinsey Family of Spinning-Wheel Makers
• The Wind Mountain Spinner
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Issue #92 – April 2016
• Alan Brenkley: A Colorful Spinning-Wheel Maker in New Zealand
• Main’s and Bryce’s Patent Wheels
• A Track Wheel Model
• A Wheel Marked IOHN BROWN and a Postcard
• A Swiss Flax Wheel Donation
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Issue #91 – January 2016
• An Unusual Boudoir Spinning Wheel
• Granville Swanney, the Last Maker of Orkney Wheels
• Two Old Orkney Spinning Wheels
• Spanish Colonial Spinning Wheels in San Diego, California
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The Spinning Wheel Sleuth: The Third Compilation
Issues 71–90, on USB/Flash drive.
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The Spinning Wheel Sleuth: The Second Ten Years
Issues 39–70, on USB/Flash drive.
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The Spinning Wheel Sleuth: The First Ten Years
Issues 1–38 on USB/Flash drive.
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