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End of wooden table with stamp I S McINTOSH 1878

Low wheel with rectangular table on three turned legs, viewed from rear. Nicely turned wheel posts hold the drive wheel with 14 spokes on left. Footman attached to treadle. Mother-of-all on the right rests on collar. Tension screw on the end of the table.

Side view of tabletop wheel shows three bands. The first band goes around the drive wheel to a grooved hub at the back of the upper accelerating wheel. A second band connects the upper accelerating wheel with the lower one. A grooved disk at the back of the lower accelerating wheel holds the third band that connects to the whorl on the spindle.

Rectangular wooden base holds two uprights. Large wheel on bottom with handle is drive wheel, one large accelerating wheel is at the top, another smaller accelerating wheel on the bottom. A spindle rests to the right-hand side.

Upright wheel with four legs forming a split table, with the treadle attached between front legs. Two slanted posts hold the drive wheel. A hinged mother-of-all has maidens shaped like bridge posts that hold the bobbin/flyer unit.

Upright wheel with drive wheel consisting of four half circle pieces that are attached to each other and a central square piece of wood. Treadle fits into base of upright with footman attached to hub. Mother-of-all on horizontal board placed at top of upright. Detachable lazy Kate on left and skein winder on front.

Low wheel with rectangular table on three turned legs. Turned wheel posts hold the drive wheel with fourteen spokes. Maidens on mother-of-all have flat tops. Tension screw on the end of the table. Treadle is missing part of foot piece.

Bobbin/quill winder is smaller version of the great wheel but the drive wheel has only eight spokes. The mother-of-all at the left end has a rod between the maidens to hold the bobbins. It is controlled by screw tensioner in the table.

Large spindle wheel has a rectangular table with three nicely turned legs and wheel post. Drive wheel has ten turned spokes. Spindle post, with accelerating spindle head, has a screw tensioner with a pear-shaped receiver.

Close-up of right hand side shows drive wheel and how the axle rests in bone bearings screwed into the slightly bent front upright. The axle is held in place by a bone peg.

Four uprights form a rectangular frame with stretchers in between that supports a rectangular frame made of rounded components at top. Drive wheel attached to outside of right-hand uprights. Left side has a another stretcher near top that holds threaded screw that holds mother-of-all and maidens. Treadle and treadle bar at bottom.

Museum display case, light reflected in glass at top right, showing a spinning wheel that is twin to Robin Baird’s and Scandinavian style niddy-noddy with fancy turnings at top and bottom of main pole.

Viewed from rear a small horizontal treadle wheel with simple rectangular table, drive wheel with fourteen spokes, footman and treadle, and bobbin/flyer unit on right.

Upright wheel in side view shows drive band going around the groove in the ends of the felloes. Mother of all shows bottom board, two short maidens holding the large bobbin/flyer unit.

Upright wheel with drive wheel consisting of an octagonal hub attached to back of upright with spokes that end in trapezoidal pieces of wood or felloes. Treadle fits into base of upright with footman attached to hub. Mother-of-all on horizontal board placed at top of upright. Detachable lazy Kate and skein winder shown on left.

Close-up of treadle on T-shaped base of upright wheel. Footman connects to octagonal hub of drive wheel.

Upright spinning wheel with T-shaped base holding treadle and footman, Mother-of-all at top of upright. Drive wheel has hexagonal hub with six spokes that end in half circle pieces glued together to form continuous rim.

Close-up of top of spindle post showing point to which is attached the bottom of the spindle head. Two short turned uprights hold the metal spindle with some wool on it. Background has drive wheel showing narrow rim with a groove and drive band.

Close-up of left end of table showing single nicely turned leg. Spindle post set into a curved board that rests on table. A carved wooden wing nut under the table holds it in place. Direct-drive spindle head on top.

Large spindle wheel has a rectangular table with nicely turned legs and wheel post. Drive wheel has thirteen turned spokes and a narrow rim. Spindle post with direct-drive spindle head set into moveable board.

On table top between mother-of-all and uprights holding drive wheel, black ink stencil O. DION on first line and BIC on second line. Below the letters is a black silhouette of a beaver standing on a branch under a curving line.

Stencils are placed in rolling-pin-shaped cutouts in thin pieces of wood attached to the sides of the table. Cossar wheel on left says “O.DION.RI.” Kenny wheel on right has red background and black ink that says “O.DION.BIC..”

Close-up taken from back of wheel shows front section of treadle which is round nailed to treadle bar, back section curves where it attaches to wooden footman.

Two horizontal spinning wheels, table with three legs with bobbin/flyer on left and screw tension at end of table. Two upright wheel posts hold a drive wheel with sixteen spokes. Complete Cossar wheel on right shows round treadle with curved end attached to wooden footman. Incomplete Kenny wheel on left missing treadle and footman. Both wheels show letters on side; Kenny wheel has words on top of table.

After footmen are removed and treadles detached, drive wheel reversed in uprights so that extended axle works as hand crank for spinner.

Same wheel – View from rear shows the tension screw at end of table that adjusts the mother-of-all. The grooves in the two parts of the accelerating wheel and the L-shape of the axle and the attached wooden footmen.

Horizontal wheel, table with three legs, with bobbin/flyer on left end. On right two upright wheel posts slant and have short braces to table. Large drive wheel with fourteen spokes. On top of table between drive wheel and bobbin flyer is an accelerating wheel. Two wooden treadles set into treadle bar are connected to thin wooden footmen attached to drive wheel axle. All elements nicely turned.

Same wheel structure as one marked JO but with bobbin/flyer missing. Marked P OUELLET on the side of the table away from the spinner. Made by Pantaléon, son of Jérémie Ouellet. Letters can be seen on top of table but are not legible. Reported to say “P Ouellet Village des Aulnaies Co L’Islet.”

Horizontal wheel, table with three legs with bobbin/flyer on left. Handle on bottom of mother-of-all to adjust drive band tension. Two upright wheel posts on right hold drive wheel with twelve spokes. C-shaped axle. Curved wooden treadle set into treadle bar. Wooden footman not attached.

Detail of end of wheel painted yellow. Initials JO stamped into lower left-hand corner of rectangular table end. Above is the metal U-bolt tensioner around mother-of-all. It is also painted yellow.

Close up of wood grain, top of table of wheel, stamped “La Famille Ouellet, Depuis 1796.”

A large group of women in brightly colored robes and head coverings are sitting on the ground spinning on simple spindle wheels. There are also small children next to some of them and in one case, near the top of the picture, the child sleeps in the mother’s lap.

Small wooden base holds two turned uprights. Between them is a turned bar and a disk next to the left post. On the outside of the left upright is a metal spindle with a wooden yarn stop and a small amount of spun yarn.

Wooden bench consisting of four legs with wooden crossbars near the bottom on front and back and metal on right side. At top screwed to the wooden side pieces is a large metal drum with small metal tines on the outside, with a handle on the side. To the left is a metal tray.

A woman with a red shawl over her head sits on the ground in front of a simple spindle wheel. Her arms are raised as she winds the spun yarn onto the spindle. The wheel is very crudely made with two short posts holding the spindle at one end of the flat wooden base. The drive wheel, at the other end is held by two turned posts. It consists of two flat disks with notched edges. A binding crisscrosses between the notches. The drive band goes around the binding and the whorl of the spindle.