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- Опубліковано 26 лип 2024
- This week we are taking a look at the Great or "Walking" Wheel. Variations on this technology has been used to turn fiber into thread or yarn for over 1,000 years! Next time, we'll take a look at the Treadle or Flax Wheel.
www.jameskpolk.net/
The President James K. Polk State Historic Site is located in Pineville, NC. We are minutes from Uptown Charlotte and an easy drive from around the region via I-485.
12031 Lancaster Highway
Pineville, NC 28134
(704) 889-7145
The President James K. Polk State Historic Site is part of the NC Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.
Looks a lot like the one in my living room. One of my wife’s great aunts got it as a wedding present right after the war against the states.
This is what is in my attic. Looks almost the same. I would love to learn how to use it
In the Southern Appalachians these wheels were used into the late 1930's. This was mostly due to the economic devastation caused by the War for Southern independence. The war set the South back 100 years.
Thanks for sharing your knowledge of the continued use of the Great Wheel with us, Susan! Here in our local region textile mills quickly became the main producers of cloth after the Civil War and many folks who may have once spun their own cloth found themselves working in the factories that mass produced such goods. We've primarily seen examples of enslaved men and women spinning on wheels by the time of the Civil War, to supply the cloth used to make clothing for the enslaved on a plantation and keep costs to the enslaver down, but there were undoubtedly people still employing the technology well beyond the War. To see some examples from the 20th century, though in a different area, there are some videos on UA-cam of Irish women showing how flax and wool were processed and spun on the Great Wheel and Flax Wheel. Definitely worth the watch!
You have a spoke missing. You are spinning from a combed roving. most of the time colonial spinner would be spinning from a carded rolag.
Quite right on both counts, Logan! Much like folks in the Early American backcountry, we make due with what's available!