Woolwinder

Description

Woolwinder, or windle, consisting of a small wooden stool with a hole in the middle into which is inserted a rod from which the wool was wound. This example belongs to Miss Maggie Calvert of Burtersett ( Wensleydale). Mounted on Photo File card with LAVC/PHO/P1312. With typed extract on this type of woolwinder from Marie Hartley and Joan Ingilby's 'The Old Hand-Knitters of the Dales' (Clapham: Dalesman, 1981). Originally held in Photo File: Knitting.

Metadata

Identifier n6z62jyv
IRN 412253
Class Mark LAVC/PHO/P1313
Level Item
Type of Record Archives - ISAD(G)
Peristent Link http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/n6z62jyv
Collection(s) Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Category Archive
Parent Record Knitting: Photocards
Creator(s) Kissling, Werner
Date June 1966
Size and Medium 1 mounted photographic print.

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