Spindle Collection

Sleeping Beauty pricks her finger by Arthur Rackham
The crucial moment in the story of Sleeping Beauty when Beauty pricks her finger on a spinning wheel thus sending her to sleep for a number of years

Sleeping Beauty by Arthur Rackham
Princess Briar Rose, aka Sleeping Beauty, pictured in a perfect pose as she sleeps for a hundred years after pricking her finger on the spindle of a spinning wheel

Louis Wain Postcard - Diabolo
A cat playing with a wooden Diabolo toy gets hit in the eye! Date: 1907

Man and woman of the Isle of Santorini, Greece, 1818. The man wears jacket, sash and harem pants. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Mary Anne Vennings A Geographical Present being Descriptions

Woman of Senegambia beating cotton, 18th century. She beats the raw cotton instead of carding it. She sits on a wooden bench in front of a thatched hut

Spindle tibia shell, Tibia fusus (spindle strombus, Strombus fusus). Illustration drawn and engraved by Richard Polydore Nodder

Prosobranchia sea snail shells: triumphant star turban, Guildfordia triumphans 1, imperial cone, Conus imperialis 2, Madras harp, Harpa davidis 3, Venus comb, Murex pecten pecten 4, branched murex

Spindle heath, Cosmelia rubra. Handcoloured lithograph from Louis van Houtte and Charles Lemaires Flowers of the Gardens and Hothouses of Europe, Flore des Serres et des Jardins de l Europe, Ghent

Broad-leaved spindle tree, Euonyms latifolius. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Weddell after a botanical illustration by John Curtis from William Curtis Botanical Magazine, Samuel Curtis

Woman spinning yarn on a spinning wheel in front of a cottage. Handcoloured woodcut engraving from The Book of English Trades and Library of the Useful Arts, Phillips, London, 1818

Roanoid bakelite drawer knobs in marbled brown. Date: 1930s

Elderly woman with distaff and spindle, Auvergne, France
Elderly woman with distaff and spindle, Auvergne, Central France. 1922

CONCEPTS / DESTINY
The Spindle of Necessity, by which the Cosmos is regulated and which governs the lives of all of us : the three Parcae are shown with the Goddess Date: 1857

Ring Spinning. Manufacturing process of cotton yarn. 19th ce
Textile Industry. 19th century. Ring Spinning. Manufacturing process of cotton yarn. Women working in the roving. Colored engraving

Spinning Jenny, multi-spindle spinning, 18th century.. Spinning Jenny, multi-spindle spinning frame invented by James Hargreaves, 18th century

A Tunisian Arab Woman spinning wool using a hand spindle Date: 1908

Radomir, Bulgaria, in the Pernik Province - a woman spinning wool and a unisex Gymnasium

The Watchers by Tremator
A beautiful young woman sits at her desk and powders her decolletage as fate and a ghostly figure dressed a Mephistopheles lurk in the shadows watching her - a metaphor on the fleeting passage of

Prehistoric Spindle Whorls, Dundrum Sand Hills - a view laid out, of a spindle and Whorls and an old penny for scale. (Location: Northern Ireland; County Down; Dundrum). Date: circa early 1900s

The Sleeping Beauty. Engraving. Colored
The Sleeping Beauty. The miracle of love. Engraving in The Iberian Illustration, 1885. Colored

The dawn of love
Young Dutch boy watches his girl wing wool onto a spindle. Artist: Florence Hardy Date: 1917

House top - Sorrento - an old woman spinning wool
On a House top - Sorrento - an old woman spinning wool. 1904

Illustration, Tortrices -- Tineae -- Pterophori -- Penthina Salicella, Retinia Resinella, Antithesia Pruniana, Grapholitha Citrana, Carpocapsa Pomonella, Tinea Tapetzella, Euplocamus Anthracinalis

Illustration, Dendrometridae -- Therapis Evonymaria, Pericallia Syringaria, Crocallis Elinguaria, Eurymene Dolabraria, Epione Advenaria, Epione Apiciaria, Diastictis Artesiaria, Ploseria Diversata

Spindle stem, Agaricus fusipes.. Spindle stem, Agaricus fusipes. Chromolithograph of an illustration by Mordecai Cubitt Cooke from A Plain and Easy Account of British Fungi, Robert Hardwicke

Irish Girl at her spinning wheel Date: circa 1903

Spindle whorl. Iberian art. Ceramics. Proc: SPAIN. Calaceite. Poblado de San Antonio

Indigenous Indians from Altiplano, Bolivia
Indigenous Indians from The Altiplano, Bolivia - likely to be of the Quechua people. Date: circa 1910s

Elderly Swiss Spinner at hew wheel. She is wearing a remarkable headdress / scarf and is working a very elegant wooden wheel. Date: circa 1910s

Portugal - Woman spinning - Douro region
The Douro wine region is situated around the Douro river valley - this is an elderly lady from the region, spinning wool on her simple wheel. Date: circa 1910

Macedonian Woman spinning
A Macedonian woman spinning wool in her cottage

Sleeping Beauty Spinning
Princess Beauty discovers the old woman spinning with a spindle and is about to prick her finger and fall into a hundred-year sleep

Autumn leaves in autumnal colours
Maple and spindle tree leaves in autumn colours

Spinning Cotton / China
A chinese boy separate cotton thread using a bobbin and spinning device, with tension provided by a wooden spring tied to his back

Modes De Paris 1830
Gowns of mousselaine, with wide lapels bodice en schall made by Madame Boussard. The ornate, broad brimmed hats are of gros de Naples

Sleeping Beauty Spindle
The princess, at the age of 15, finds an old lady spinning: the witchs prophecy is about to come true... she will prick her finger and fall into a long sleep

AXLE 1690
AISSIEU, modern Essieu : axle or spindle

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