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- Clock Reel, Made by Joseph Gregg, 1780-1800 - 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.
- 1780-1800
- Collections - Artifact
Clock Reel, Made by Joseph Gregg, 1780-1800
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.
- Flax Wheel, Made by Joseph Gregg, 1765-1803 - Saxony-style spinning wheels allowed the operator to turn unprocessed fiber into thread. The distaff--a stationary rod at the front missing on this example--held the flax as the flier, powered by foot using a treadle, spun it into thread. The bobbin near the flier held finished thread. Major Joseph Gregg (1741-1804), a New Hampshire-born Revolutionary War soldier, made this spinning wheel.
- 1765-1803
- Collections - Artifact
Flax Wheel, Made by Joseph Gregg, 1765-1803
Saxony-style spinning wheels allowed the operator to turn unprocessed fiber into thread. The distaff--a stationary rod at the front missing on this example--held the flax as the flier, powered by foot using a treadle, spun it into thread. The bobbin near the flier held finished thread. Major Joseph Gregg (1741-1804), a New Hampshire-born Revolutionary War soldier, made this spinning wheel.
- Flax Wheel, Made by Joseph Gregg, 1765-1803 - Saxony-style spinning wheels allowed the operator to turn unprocessed fiber into thread. The distaff--the stationary rod at the front--held the flax as the flier, powered by foot using a treadle, spun it into thread. The bobbin near the flier held finished thread. Major Joseph Gregg (1741-1804), a New Hampshire-born Revolutionary War solider, made this spinning wheel.
- 1765-1803
- Collections - Artifact
Flax Wheel, Made by Joseph Gregg, 1765-1803
Saxony-style spinning wheels allowed the operator to turn unprocessed fiber into thread. The distaff--the stationary rod at the front--held the flax as the flier, powered by foot using a treadle, spun it into thread. The bobbin near the flier held finished thread. Major Joseph Gregg (1741-1804), a New Hampshire-born Revolutionary War solider, made this spinning wheel.
- Flax Wheel, Made by Joseph Gregg, 1765-1803 - Saxony-style spinning wheels allowed the operator to turn unprocessed fiber into thread. The distaff--the stationary rod at the front--held the flax as the flier, powered by foot using a treadle, spun it into thread. The bobbin near the flier held finished thread. Major Joseph Gregg (1741-1804), a New Hampshire-born Revolutionary War solider, made this spinning wheel.
- 1765-1803
- Collections - Artifact
Flax Wheel, Made by Joseph Gregg, 1765-1803
Saxony-style spinning wheels allowed the operator to turn unprocessed fiber into thread. The distaff--the stationary rod at the front--held the flax as the flier, powered by foot using a treadle, spun it into thread. The bobbin near the flier held finished thread. Major Joseph Gregg (1741-1804), a New Hampshire-born Revolutionary War solider, made this spinning wheel.