Spinning Collection (page 3)

Macclesfield Factory Girl Preparing Warp 1845
Factory girl seated at her frame, preparing the wasp for a power-loom in a large manufacturing town in the county of Chester

Late 19th century - young Japanese woman spinning thread
Vintage 19th century studio portrait, Japan

Japan - machinery, for spinning thread, yarn
Vintage 19th century photograph: Japan - machinery, for spinning thread, yarn

Women spinning net thread in the Claddagh, Galway, Ireland. Date: 1870

Comic postcard, Two drunks in the street and water board worker Date: 20th century

Caucasus Georgia Tiflis Tblisi - baker caarrying bread
Caucasus Georgia Tiflis Tblisi - silk spinning machine. Vintage 19th century photograph

Caucasus Georgia Tiflis Tblisi - silk spinning machine. Vintage 19th century photograph

Norway, rural family outside home with spinning wheel
Vintage 19th century photograph: Norway, rural family outside their home with spinning wheel

Spinning silk threads, Japan. Vintage 19th century photograph

Scenes at Niagara skating rink in London during a visit by King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra. Pictured are the famous British skating couple, Edgar and Madge Syers, as well as Mr. H

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

Brewing, steel ware and gloves, and a mineral waters spa in Regency England. Brewers stirring vats of beer mash in a Reading brewery 4, women buying gloves in Woodstock 5

Trades in Regency England: cable making, straw work
Trades in Regency England. Men twisting rope in a cable making factory in Deptford 1, women and children making straw hats in Dunstable 2 and a woman making lace outside a cottage in Buckingham 3

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

Private quarters of an Ottoman official. Officials in robes sit on a divan in a large carpeted room. Appartement d un ministre de la Porte

Penelope and her attendants spinning thread
A depiction of Penelope, wife of Odysseus, with her attendants. Penelope sits on a chair at work on a thread. A servant takes away a mirror, and another brings todays cloth

Spinning wheel
A young seamstress at her spinning wheel. Artist: Lilian Amy Govey Date: 1920

Meltham Mills 1851
Meltham Mills, near Huddersfield. Brooks family, Royal improved, patent cotton spinning mill. 1851

The game of ivory spinning top, Toton or Pirouette. A hand emerging from a cloud to spin a top on a marble plinth. From a book of emblems from the 16th century

Monkeys playing golf, skittles, hoops, croquet, leapfrog, ball games, stiltwalking, archery, spinning tops, popinjay, etc. From a 16th century print

Itinerant turner wearing a dress covered in
Itinerant lathe turner (tourneuse) wearing a dress covered in wooden toys and games. She holds a head for a wig 1, scythe 2, trumpet 3, flutes 4, lace bobbins 5, rolling pin 6, egg 8, goblet 9

The game of spinning top in Russia, early 19th century. A youth spins a top on the ground in front of a crowd of onlookers

Advertisement for diablo, cup and ball, top, dice, etc
Advertisement for toys including diablo, cup and ball, spinning top, skittles, yo-yo, dice, marbles, etc. during the Empire era

An organ grinder and a poodle with spinning machine before an audience of fashionable women in bonnets with plumes, shawls and lace dresses

Costumes of men and women of the Nubian people of Dongola
Costumes of men and women of the Nubian people (Barabra) of Dongola (Dunqulah). Man in loincloth 1, women in veil 2, 5, woman spinning 3, man with spear 4 and warrior with spear and shield 6

Spinning tops, skittles, and other games of the Babki region, Russia, 18th century. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Giarre and Stanghi from Giulio Ferrarios Costumes Ancient

Russian serfs or peasantry, 18th century
Russian serfs or peasantry. A peasant in travel clothes with hat, shirt, boots and bark shoes, and women spinning yarn and washing clothes

Scene in a gynaeceum, womens quarters, Ancient Greece. One woman teaching her children, another playing with a baby, others embroidering, reading and spinning

Greek and Italian female costume, 18th century. Woman in walking dress, women in the strange dress of Argentiera, Sassari, and women from the Greek islands of Paros, Chios and Ios

Chinese woman reeling silk thread from wild silkworms, Bombyx mori, Qing Dynasty. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Andrea Freschi after Antoine Cardon from Henri-Leonard-Jean-Baptiste Bertin

Cotton spinner and mantua maker, Qing Dynasty China. Woman spinning thread on a spinning wheel, and itinerant clothes maker with her tools in a basket

Woman spinner in bonnet and apron spinning wool yarn on a spinning machine. Handcoloured woodcut engraving from The Book of English Trades and Library of the Useful Arts, Phillips, London, 1818

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

Sailor spinning a yarn to fisherman and fisherwoman
Sailor spinning a yarn to a fisherman and a fisherwoman, Ilfracombe, Devon. 1906

Manchester Municipal Weaving School
The spinning room at the Manchester Municipal Weaving School run by the city council to train young people for work in the textile industry. Date: circa 1894

People with Wheel of Fortune, Nevada, USA
People with a Wheel of Fortune at a gambling club in Nevada, USA. Date: circa 1940s

Winding weft at a spinning wheel in Northern Ireland
Cottage industries, winding weft at a spinning wheel in Northern Ireland. Date: 1888

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

Woman at a spinning wheel, Dinan, Brittany, Northern France
Woman at a spinning wheel near Dinan, Brittany, Northern France. 1922

Women of Nio (Ios) island, Greek Archipelago
Women of Nio (Nios, Ios), an island of the Greek Archipelago (Cyclades Islands, Aegean Sea). circa 1790

The Acme Spinning Co Ltd
Concerning Cotton - The Acme Spinning Co Ltd - Factory. 1920

Spanish Cantabrian Peasant Woman Spinning. 19th century

Top Spinning on Finger Date: 1950

Silk culture in China 1857
Preparing raw silk. Date: 1857

Cotton Spinning Machine 1862
Cotton Manufacture in the International Exhibition. Platts Self-Acting Mule, or the Cotton Spinning Machine. Date: 1862

Marshalls Flax Mill factory 1885
Preparing flax for spinning looms. Date: 1885

Spinning machine or engine 1843
A steam-powered silk spinning machine or engine at the Old Silk Mill, Derby. Date: 1843

INDIAN BUTTER CHURNERS
Indian men using a primitive wooden butter churner, the pole is twisted with ropes in a similar manner to a childs spinning top. Date: 1930s

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