Clock Reel, circa 1875
THF171065 / Clock Reel, circa 1875
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Artifact Overview
A clock reel is a device used to wind spun yarn into measured skeins. The mechanism is similar to a mechanical clock. The dial's hand is attached to gears that count off the number of times the reel revolves. The dial kept track automatically, making it easy to know how many yards had been spun--without having to keep track in one's head.
Artifact Details
Artifact
Reel (Textile machinery)
Date Made
circa 1875
Collection Title
Location
Not on exhibit to the public.
Object ID
2017.84.22
Credit
From the Collections of The Henry Ford. Gift of American Textile History Museum, donated to ATHM by Joan Whittaker Cummer.
Material
Wood (Plant material)
Dimensions
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Spinning frames spin cotton fiber into yarn and then wind it onto a bobbin. This throstle spinning frame could simultaneously spin 64 strands of yarn. (Throstle -- an old name for a song thrush -- refers to the bird-like sounds the machine made.) Machines like this helped produce the large quantities of yarn that growing industrial weaving operations needed in the early and mid-1800s.