Pulley-operated spinning device; Massachusetts and Ohio, 19th century
date: label: date made
content: 19th century
notes: label: Description
content: This spinning implement has the spindle of a simple wool wheel, mounted on a vertical support. In place of a large driving ving wheel, with a long cord or belt stretches across to a pulley attached to a window sill or other point. The spinner pulls the cord to operate the spindle as she walks to and fro in place of striking a wheel to drive a belt. This tool was originally owned by Dundee and Nacy Sherman, of Massachusetts, who married in 1811. They took it with them when they moved to Ohio in 1831.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Textiles
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TE.T14025.000
label: catalog number
content: T14025.000
label: accession number
content: 270014
objectType: label: Object Name
content: spinning device
label: Object Name
content: spinning wheel, device or implement
label: Object Name
content: spinning , device or implement