Spinning Collection (page 9)

The Three Spinners. From Once Upon a Time no. 36

Cotton Mule Spinning
Cotton mule spinning Date: 1852

Man with a broom, wearing geta; woman with spinning wheel; man with a mallet. Date 18--

Two country bumpkins posing next to a spinning wheel
" The countryside is full of friendly children! Do you not think they are better than those in Paris?"

Welsh spinners and spinning wheel, Wales. Date between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900

Sir Richard Arkwright, inventor of the spinning machine. Japanese print shows an angry Arkwright sending his wife to her parents because she deliberately broke his spinning wheel

John Dempsey (looked 11 or 12) years old. Said he helped onl

Samuel Crompton, inventor of the spinning mule. Print shows statue of Samuel Crompton in Nelson Square, Bolton England. The statue, by W. Calder Marshall, was raised by public subscription

General View of, 2 Spinning Room in Indian Orchard Cotton Mill, Indian Orchard, Mass. Location: Indian Orchard, Massachusetts. Date 1916 June 29

To the right hon able the Earl of Moira, this plate, taken on the spot in the County of Downe, representing spinning, reeling with the clock reel

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

West Africa, Sierra Leone - Spinning Cotton Date: circa 1910s

Spinning Cotton 18th C
A man is spinning cotton on a wheel in 18th century France Date: Circa 1760

Spinning Fishing Lure
A spinner (spinning fishing lure). Date: 1960s

Greek Spinning Girl
A Greek girl in traditional costume, using an old- fashioned spiining rod with her nimble fingers. Date: 1930s

French Spinning Champ
Mademoiselle Liane Roch, who received a medal from the President of France, for being the fastest and most skillful hand spinner in Alsace. Shown here with her spinning wheel! Date: 1930s

Fishing Casts
A fishing rod with longer spinning casts. Date: 1960s

Chodenland Spinners
Women of Chodenland, (Bohemia, Czechoslovakia), spinning flax at their humming spinning wheels, singing folk songs as they spin in their colourful red dresses. Date: 1930s

Chodenland Girl Spinner
A girl of Chodenland, (Bohemia, Czechoslovakia), spinning flax wrapped around a distaff, which is always tied around a ribbon embroidered with many colours. Date: 1930s

Italian Peasant Spinners
Italian peasant women in traditional costumes, spinning hemp. Date: 1930s

Spanish Spinners
Spanish women using a spinning wheel, Granada, Spain. Date: 1930s

HALL I TH WOOD
Hall i th Wood, near Bolton, Lancashire, England. Once the home of Samuel Crompton, the inventor of the Spinning Mule (1779), which revolutionised the cotton industry. Date: 15th century

Sierra Leone, West Africa - Cotton Spinning Date: circa 1910s

Peasant Family - Kashmir - India
A beautiful very early photographic postcard showing a peasant Family in Kashmir, Northern India. There are three simple spinning wheels in the foreground

Poster warning about safety on the airfield. Watch that prop. Careless walk costs lives. Showing a pilot losing his head by walking into a spinning propeller. 1940s

The Sleeping Beauty by Lilian Govey. She came to a little attic at the top a tower, where an old woman sat spinning all alone. A fairy tale by Charles Perrault Date: 1912

Lace Making / Flanders
Lace making in Flanders Date: 19th Century

Mother Hubbard / Spinning
She went to the semptress To buy him some linen But when she came back The poor dog was spinning Date: 1890s

Wonder Stories Scifi Magazine Cover, Red April
Red April, 1965 - A ray from a spinning ball, created by three enemy ships, destroys an American spaceship. Date: 1932

Spinning in Burma Date: 19th century

General section of Mr Illingworths engine no 2 Date: 1792

British Ballad, Auld Robin Gray
AULD ROBIN GRAY British ballad of Scottish origin written by Lady Anne Barnard (1750-1825) Old Robin Gray marries a young girl whose lover is thought to be dead

Spinning flax, Inebriates Reformatory, Guiltcross, Norfolk
Inmates spinning flax at the Eastern Counties or East Harling Inebriates Reformatory, Norfolk. Housed in the former Guiltcross Union workhouse

Music cover, spinning wheel scene from Martha
Music cover for the comic opera entitled Martha, or the Market at Richmond by Friedrich von Flotow (1812-1883), set in the early 18th century

Silk weaving on a loom - Japan

Lady from Lerwick using a Singer Sewing Machine
A Lady from Lerwick, Shetland Islands, using a Singer Sewing Machine

Inside a traditional miners cottage, Lands End, Cornwall
Scene inside a traditional miners cottage at Lands End, Cornwall. There is a copper kettle by the fireplace, a spinning wheel, two clocks, various pictures, and patterned wallpaper

Bosnia and Herzegovina - National Costume
Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina - Woman hand spinning wool in the National Costume

Croatian National Costume - Lady and spinning wheel
Croatian National Costume, Zagreb - Lady and spinning wheel - advertising card (see below)

Wool spinning - Patons & Baldwins
A view looking down a machine rolling yarn onto circular spools, after the wool has been industrially spun at Patons & Baldwins factory in Darlington

Saint-Charles - Algeria - Orphans
A French Mission to Africa (Saint Charles) - nuns running a home for orphans in Algeria

Industrial Yarn Spinning
A factory worker attends to an enormous yarn spinning machine at Patons & Baldwins factory in Darlington. Patons & Baldwins was a leading British manufacturer of knitting yarn

A Machine Collects Woollen Thread on spools
A factory worker checks a machine rolling yarn onto circular spools, after the wool has been industrially spun at Patons & Baldwins factory in Darlington

Macedonian Woman spinning
A Macedonian woman spinning wool in her cottage

Mevlevi Dervishes - The Sema (Constantinople)
The Mevlevi Whirling Dervishes of Konya (Konia) - The Sema. This Dervish order was founded in memory of Jelaluddin Rumi (1207 - 1273) - mystic and poet

Group of Mevlevi Dervishes - Istanbul
A Group of Mevlevi Dervishes from Constantinople. The Mevlevi Whirling Dervishes of Konya (Konia) - The Sema. This Dervish order was founded in memory of Jelaluddin Rumi (1207 - 1273)

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