spinningwheels

8 photos tagged spinningwheels, from 6 members of Flickr Commons.

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Not everybody left Skibbereen it seems!

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

  • 14 older comments, and then…
  • O Mac said:
    "Skibbereen 2624 WL" bottom left corner... ??
  • O Mac said:
    "Convent of Mercy Schools Skibbereen." credited to Lawrence. catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000323892
  • Niall McAuley said:
    The convent on the 25" map. The building marked School there is still standing, and renovated as offices: streetview Edit: wrong School! See the beachcomber's comment below for the correct one.
  • John Spooner said:
    The teaser from the BNA index for Freeman's Journal on 9th October 1893: "LiNEN WEAVING AT THE CONVENT OF MERCY, SKIBBEREEN. It will be in the recollection of our readers that in 1889 the nuns of the Convent of Mercy, Skibbereen, first made the experiment of introducing the art of linen weaving by hand looms into the .."
  • O Mac said:
    School was closed 2003. Buildings still there.. R595 maps.app.goo.gl/i2hbR6uhCGp37LUi7

Armenians taking spin.[i.e. spinning] wheels home (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

  • swanq said:
    Seems like a repeat of Erivan -- Taking home spinning wheels & cotton (LOC)

Erivan -- Taking home spinning wheels & cotton (LOC)

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Jessie Coker demonstrating spinning at the 1959 Florida Folk Festival - White Springs

from Florida Memory

  • Karin Joy Passmore said:
    When Calico was queen!