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29 photos and 8 illustrations tagged spinning, from 18 members of Flickr Commons.

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• bldigital
• publicdomain
• mechanicalcurator
• spinningwheel
• wool
• woman
• women
• sherlocknet:category=organism
• vol0
• weaving
• wheel
• ireland
• yarn
• factory
• sherlocknet:tag=hand
• medium
• children
• northernireland
• ulster
• sherlocknet:tag=year
• large
• sherlocknet:tag=john
• sherlocknet:tag=house
• sherlocknet:tag=nation

Members using this tag

• British Library 8 photos & illustrations
• Public Record Office of Northern Ireland 4 photos & illustrations
• The Library of Congress 3 photos & illustrations
• Nasjonalbiblioteket 3 photos & illustrations
• Fylkesarkivet i Vestland 3 photos & illustrations
• National Library of Ireland on The Commons 2 photos & illustrations
• U.S. National Archives 2 photos & illustrations
• Nationaal Archief 2 photos & illustrations
• Mennonite Church USA Archives 1 photo / illustration
• SMU Libraries Digital Collections 1 photo / illustration
• Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru / The National Library of Wales 1 photo / illustration
• Swedish National Heritage Board - Riksantikvarieämbetet 1 photo / illustration

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Carding wool and spinning, Donegal

from Public Record Office of Northern Ireland

• Tiến Ban said:

  thuốc kéo dài thời gian quan hệ Cũng tán gái mạnh lắm nhưng có lẽ do bản thân mình nhàm chán quá nên không bạn gái nào chịu nổi.

• Tiến Ban said:

  may photocopy toshiba chinh hang may photocopy ricoh chinh hang dich vu cho thue may photocopy thuê máy photocopy tai cau giay thuê máy photocopy tai ha dong

Bondi Public School - spinning wheel

from Museums of History NSW - State Archives Collection

• beachcomber australia said:

  I thought there might be a good 'yarn' behind this photo. Sure enough ...

  In a film now being shown there is a picture entitled "What the Stay-at-homes are Doing." The first part shows the quaint Norwegian wheel going, while Australia's golden fleece is being spun for our soldiers socks. Miss Bennett sat for this picture lesson on spinning. In the second part the two school girls who are spinning are from the Bondi S.P. School, selected by the Under Secretary for the first spinning class held in a school in Australia. Right royally teachers and senior girls took advantage, learning to spin and buying their own wheel. Then there is a knitter who sits calmly at work on her sock. When the war started very few girls in Australia could knit socks. She, like other noble workers gave up many interests in order to organise classes and teach girls to knit. The knitter is Miss McPherson, slster of the late Major McPherson, who fell in the gallant charge of the 18th Battalion. ...

  From SMH 17/5/1917, p.7 - trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/28783276

• Museums of History NSW - State Archives Collection said:

  Excellent detective work!

Salmon and Straw Boaters

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

• 32 older comments, and then…
• luca marella said:

  beautiful details

• derangedlemur said:

  His waistcoat is remarkably inoffensive for the 1890s. Cover illustrations of Three Men in a Boat are usually not too far off, typically depicting Harris in an orange and yellow stripy blazer of considerable foulness.

• National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:

  luca marella Thank you!

• National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:

  derangedlemur And of course the title also includes "... not to mention the dog"! I think there's a dog here, or else the hairiest rock ever!

• Wendy: said:

  Wonderful depiction of a day out on the river!