old spinning wheel

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> This is specially for all the spinners in the group
> Just to make me life a little easier, I am posting the note I posted to
> all our Guild members as I wrote it. Hope that is OK
> This story is about an old home made spinning wheel, that Otto fixed.
> Hello all spinners:
> Jytte, came by last Saturday and asked Otto for help with an old spinning
> wheel, that she saw at the Shawnigan museum. She told Otto that it was a
> very interesting wheel, and that she had never seen one like that before,
> however she could not make it work, was he willing to have a look at it.
> Otto went the next day and got the spinning wheel. It is a very different
> wheel from what we have ever seen before.
> We might think that a Wooly winder is a great invention and the latest in
> hand spinners technology. Well think again. This wheel has an automated
> wind up, and was made around 1918.
> The wheel is contained in a square wooden frame work, made from odds and
> ends that were available around the house, by a very creative craftsman.
> The drive wheel is made of solid wood. There is a second wheel or rather
> rachet, with a pall moving it along. It works some levers to move the
> bobbin along the spindle or axle, in and out of the flyer. It is the most
> inventive part of this wheel a very unusual flyer and bobbin assembly. The
> flyer is rotating in place with the bobbin sliding back and forth on the
> spindle, moving in and out of the flyer arms embrace, while they are both
> turning. This will automatically wind up the yarn that is spun. It is
> the most amazing thing to watch. There are many other interesting parts
> on this wheel, that I have never seen on any of the wheels we use.
> The wheel is from the beginning the twentieth century. It comes from
> Saskatchewan. It and was home made, by French Canadians who had moved to
> the United States to work in the textile mills. They were not very well
> treated and at that time they were drawn back to Canada with the promise
> of free land on the prairies.
> I think that some of the ingenious constructions of this wheel, where
> learned in the textile mills in the States. It would be interesting to
> see, how the spinning machinery worked in those places, just to compare
> notes
> I took some pictures of the wheel, to keep a record of how it was put
> together. Otto took it in the basement and worked on it for a couple of
> days. It was obvious that the wheel had been moved around quite a bit
> with some of the pieces not put back together the right way, and some
> pieces missing altogether. With some new parts and a bit of cleaned all
> the turning parts, giving all a drop of oil, the wheel was ready for a
> trial run. After a couple of bad starts, with several adjustments made,
> little tightening here and there, It is spinning very nicely.
> Naturally you are all welcome on RCTY to come and see this wheel. LOL
> Just take out your brooms and come on over. Otherwise I have just put
> these on my website, go have a look there.

> Oh my Els!!! What an amazing piece!!
>
> Thank you so much for sharing it with us:))
>
> O

>> Oh my Els!!! What an amazing piece!!
>> Thank you so much for sharing it with us:))
>> O
> Ophelia, it is always great to see Mechanical tools, home made from the
> past. It is a great machine and whoever made it for his wife did a
> fantastic job with very little materials, that all look recycled. When
> Otto took the wheel home from the little local museum, there was an
> article about the people and the wheel with it. There were two old
> photographs,showing a woman sitting spinning, behind a similar or this
> wheel,. Someone like you and me. I love stories like that, from that
> long ago. Otto had a great time playing detective on how the parts had to
> go together to make it work. Fun time and the icing on the cake was, when
> we made it work and I spun some yarn on it.

torture <G> to get every last ounce of history about the object:))

> >> Oh my Els!!! What an amazing piece!!
> >> Thank you so much for sharing it with us:))
> >> O
> > Ophelia, it is always great to see Mechanical tools, home made from the
> > past. It is a great machine and whoever made it for his wife did a
> > fantastic job with very little materials, that all look recycled. When
> > Otto took the wheel home from the little local museum, there was an
> > article about the people and the wheel with it. There were two old
> > photographs,showing a woman sitting spinning, behind a similar or this
> > wheel,. Someone like you and me. I love stories like that, from that
> > long ago. Otto had a great time playing detective on how the parts had to
> > go together to make it work. Fun time and the icing on the cake was, when
> > we made it work and I spun some yarn on it.
>
> Oh yessssssssssssssssssssssss:))))))))))) Absolutely:))
>
> You may or may not know that my work is in Social History. Whenever anyone
> comes with a donation I give them the third degree with bright lights and
> torture <G> to get every last ounce of history about the object:))
>
> O xx