Spinning Collection

Quaker women spinning in church
Quaker ladies doing their chores while at worship services. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Machine-spun thread on a bobbin in the Lowell mills
Bobbins with machine-spun thread, Boott Cotton Mills, Lowell, Massachusetts. Photograph

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Young Puritan woman reading while spinning at her wheel. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Family storyteller
Old woman telling folklore to young girls in a cottage kitchen, England. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Greek women at their household chores
Women occupied with sewing, spinning, and other household chores in ancient Greece. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Making silk in early China
Silk-making in the early days of China. Hand-colored halftone reproduction of a 19th-century illustration

Pioneer girl spinning
Pioneer woman at her spinning-wheel by the fireside. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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Native woman spinning cotton in the ancient way, Mexico. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustratioin

Burmese women and a spinning wheel
Burmese woman spinning, another at a loom (left), and a woman (right) from Ava, former capital of Burma. Antique hand-colored print

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Patriotic American colonial woman spinning to avoid importing British cloth before the Revolutionary War. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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Courtship using a whispering rod on Halloween in colonial days. Hand-colored halftone reproduction of a 19th-century illustration

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Women spinning with large wheels, 1800s. Hand colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Norwegian immigrant homestead, Old World Wisconsin
Norwegian immigrant farm woman reenactor spinning wool in the Kvaale House, built circa 1848, at Old World Wisconsin, Eagle WI. Digital photograph

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MIll worker tending mule-spinners, an industrial textile machine, 1800s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th century illustration

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A rural English cottage, with a woman spinning, a traveler, and a hunter, 1600s. Hand-colored 19th-century woodcut reproduction of a 17th-century illustration

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