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<p>[QUOTE="2manybooks, post: 4385914, member: 8267"]This type of spinning wheel can be used in spinning any kind of fiber (flax, wool, cotton). But if it was designed for flax spinning there should be a hole in the table/base, near the "mother-of-all" (the assemblage of support arms ("maidens"), flyer and bobbin), to hold a distaff which held the flax fibers:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://ids.si.edu/ids/deliveryService?id=NMAH-71-487&max=1000" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/search/object/nmah_640675" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/search/object/nmah_640675" rel="nofollow">https://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/search/object/nmah_640675</a></p><p><br /></p><p>This type of spinning wheel, where the spinster could be seated, is distinguished from the "great wheel", or "walking" wheel, which was used only for spinning wool:</p><p><img src="https://oshawamuseum.files.wordpress.com/2017/09/walkingwheel.jpg?w=300&h=221" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><a href="https://oshawamuseum.wordpress.com/2017/09/08/artefacts-the-walking-wheel/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://oshawamuseum.wordpress.com/2017/09/08/artefacts-the-walking-wheel/" rel="nofollow">https://oshawamuseum.wordpress.com/2017/09/08/artefacts-the-walking-wheel/</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="2manybooks, post: 4385914, member: 8267"]This type of spinning wheel can be used in spinning any kind of fiber (flax, wool, cotton). But if it was designed for flax spinning there should be a hole in the table/base, near the "mother-of-all" (the assemblage of support arms ("maidens"), flyer and bobbin), to hold a distaff which held the flax fibers: [IMG]https://ids.si.edu/ids/deliveryService?id=NMAH-71-487&max=1000[/IMG] [URL]https://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/search/object/nmah_640675[/URL] This type of spinning wheel, where the spinster could be seated, is distinguished from the "great wheel", or "walking" wheel, which was used only for spinning wool: [IMG]https://oshawamuseum.files.wordpress.com/2017/09/walkingwheel.jpg?w=300&h=221[/IMG] [URL]https://oshawamuseum.wordpress.com/2017/09/08/artefacts-the-walking-wheel/[/URL][/QUOTE]
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