From Farfield Mill, Cumbria

May 2017

Graphite pencil on warm toned paper. 43.5 X 54cm (framed)

Originally designed for spinning, these traditional wheels were often adapted to wind bobbins or 'pirns', spools of yarn small enough to sit inside the weaver's shuttle.

From Shetland

November 2017

Graphite pencil on warm toned paper, 43.5 X 54cm (framed)

Wheels of this traditional design were originally made for spinning the thicker yarn used to weave ‘wadmal’. Known as Muckle Wheels, they were often later adapted and became also used to wind bobbins or ‘pirns’. Wheel part of Shetland Museum and Archives Collection