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  • Photographed by Geoff Charles. This photograph shows a woman spinning wool at a wheel.
Royal Welsh Agricultural Show, Haverfordwest, July 1955
  • Photographed by John Thomas.
A woman in Welsh national dress with a spinning wheel, c. 1885
  • Group portrait of women knitting next to a large spinning wheel. Photographed by John Thomas.
Capel Garmon natives, c. 1875
  • Photographed by John Thomas.
Margaret Evans and her spinning wheel, Cyffylliog, near Ruthin, c. 1885
  • This large hand spinning wheel was known as great wheel, Welsh wheel, or walking wheel. It was used for hand spinning wool or winding bobbins and is of a type commonly used in the 18th and 19th centuries. This example is from Garndolbenmaen.
Large hand spinning wheel from Garndolbenmaen
  • Originally, two of these machines, working opposite each other, filled the entire first floor of the Cambrian Mills South building. Here the wool fibre is spun into thread, seen being wound onto the blue spindles on the left of the photograph. The part of the machine holding the spindles moved to and fro, twisting the fibres into lengths and winding it in preparation for weaving.
Spinning Machine, Cambrian Mills, Dre-fach Felindre, 1900s (image 1 of 2)