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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Rayo56, post: 161327, member: 2022&quot;]These are the &quot;great wheels&quot; - popular in the 1800&#039;s.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://wildfernacres.blogspot.com/2010/05/restoring-my-antique-heirloom-great.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://wildfernacres.blogspot.com/2010/05/restoring-my-antique-heirloom-great.html" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_o-HZDOEariE/S-LzEvoHsSI/AAAAAAAAFao/vFyHLTg_X2c/s1600/spinning+wheel167+(733x515).jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></p><p><br /></p><p>Yours is called a flax wheel because of the distaff (which is really supposed to look like a birdcage) that holds the bundle of flax so you just pull some off of it and start spinning. I was under the impression flax fibre was oily and dirty and you would also have a little holder with water in it to moisten your fingers so the fiber will slide through them easier.</p><p>The bobbin (spool) you have ontop of the distaff holder probably doesn&#039;t go there. It looks to me like it is just a higher capacity bobbin for spinning a larger quantity of fiber.</p><p>My wife has never used her distaff appendage and has just taken the whole thing off her wheel as flax spinning now a days is pretty much extinct with all the new kinds of spinning fibers out there.</p><p><br /></p><p>This is my wife&#039;s antique CREEN flax wheel after I repaired it that she spins all kind of different fibers on. It is a double drive as you can see the drive band is doubled.[ATTACH=full]43996[/ATTACH] The hole on the upper left in the table is where the flax appendage went.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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