School: An Ghráinseach, Cluain Meala (roll number 7982)
- Location:
- Grange, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Séamus Ó Maolchathaigh
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- Spinning
Croan: Parish of Newcastle, 40 years ago.
My grandmother had a spinning wheel. The stand was similar to but higher than a stool, about 4 feet long.
The uprights which supported the axle on which the wheel turned and on which the spindle was fixed were mortised into the stand and inclined outwards at an angle of about 30 degrees from the vertical. The axle on which the wheel turned would be about as high as spinner's shoulder.
Diagram 1. Holes (1,2,3,4)about 3/4"
Two "ears" made of triple platted straw from holes 1 to 2 and from 3 to 4, spindle spin on these.
Spindle support 6" wide 2" thick(ab0ut)
Diagram 2. Wheel suppor tabout 4" by 3"
Diagram 3. Section of spindle. Wood about 12" long (fearsad)(continues on next page)- Collector
- Séamus Ó Maolchathaigh
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Múinteoir