Thread Reels

Materials: Dogwood, Locust, Walnut

More early experiments with the treadle lathe (good to make at demos). Patterned after thread reels in the Museum of London book on Household Objects. The original was described as ending in "fineals," but I suspect it was for use on a spinning wheel such as that illustrated in the German Housebook, for which the reel is illustrated with flared ends.

 

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