Spins Collection

Welsh woman with spinning wheel, Wales
Welsh woman outside a cottage with a spinning wheel, Wales. Date: late 19th century

Breakdancing
A breakdancer spins round on his back and stuns his teenage onlookers. Note the profusion of of white clothes and stilettos, slip-on shoes with white socks, perms and mullets

Spinning Harris Tweed
Production of Harris Tweed. A typical scene in an island home as the crofter spins her yarn

Woman spinning - India
Woman spinning on a traditional hand-made wheel, India

Faroe Islands, Denmark - Women Spinning
A woman working at a spinning wheel with two companions - The Faroe Islands, Denmark

Dassault-Breguet Mystere 20 1st prototype F-WLKB at the 1964 Paris Air Show, shown with the two 3, 300 lbf Pratt & Whitney JT12A-8 turbojet engines originally fitted

A rotating zootrope : the image seen through the slits as the drum spins give the illusion of movement. Date: 1881

Top Spinning on Finger Date: 1950

Old woman spinning in her cottage
An old cottage woman spins with a distaff at her fireside. Date: circa 17th century

Bosnia and Herzegovina - Carpet Weavers at work. Date: 1911

Rumplestiltskin
The scene where a gnome appears in the room and spins the straw into gold for the millers daughter in return for her necklace. Date: 1924

Cyprus - Women Spinning wool
Cyprus - Cypriot Women Spinning wool and working at a loom. Date: circa 1906

South Korea - Joseon Province - Weaving and Spinning
South Korea - Joseon (Chosen, Choson) Province - Women Weaving and Spinning. Date: circa 1920s

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

Vietnamese Silk Weaver - Loom
Vietnam - Spinning silk thread on a wheel and weaving the tread on a loom. Date: 1910s

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

Portugal, Madeira, Funchal: Peasant woman spinning wool Date: 2016

British Mediterranean Fleet Sports Day - Prize Giving at the Ben-Marl Stadium, rigged up by the crews of the HMS Benbow and the HMS Marlborough of the 4th Battle Squadron

Algerian Spinner
An Algerian housewife spins at the doorway of her home Date: 1906

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

Women with spinning wheel, Scotland
Two women and a girl sitting outside the Post Office with a spinning wheel and other equipment, Scotland. Date: late 19th century

Irish Girl at her spinning wheel Date: circa 1903

Swiss Woman dancing with a brown bear
Swiss Woman in traditional costume dancing enthusiastically with a brown bear, the symbol of both the city and surrounding canton of Bern, Switzerland, and is featured in their coat of arms

Palma, Mallorca, Spain - Old Woman Spinning by a public water fountain. Date: circa 1910s

Vietnamese girl spinning silk by hand on a wheel. Date: circa 1907

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

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

Where the Fishes Come From. Artist: Anon. An old sailor sitting on the shore, spins a yarn to an attentive little girl holding a model sailing vessel Date: circa 1905

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

Macedonian Woman spinning
A Macedonian woman spinning wool in her cottage

Weaver and admirer - Florence Hardy
Weaving a web deeper than friendship. An amorous advance by a young man toward a lady weaver working at her spinning wheel

Japanese juggler at St. Martins Hall
The Japanese performer and famous peg-top-man, Ja-En-See, spins his top with a string wound round it and contrives to make it go through such nimble

Dr Syntax Soliloquising
Doctor Syntax gazes out at the countryside and soliloquises, while two dogs sit listening to him and an old woman spins

Spinning / Hunting 17C
A country wife spins at her cottage door, watching hunters and travellers as they pass by

Spinning Flax at Home
A woman spins flax at home into thread for linen using a spinning wheel

Spinning, Saxony Wheel
A woman spins wool on a Saxony type of spinning wheel

Spinning, Scotland
A girl spins with a distaff outside a Scottish cottage

Spinning, Austria
A Rockensitz - literally, a distaff session - among peasant women in lower Austria; the old lady tells stories as she spins, the young ones listen

C17 Spinning
A country wife spins at her cottage door, watching hunters and travellers as they pass by

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