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The Tale of the Spinning Wheel

Chapter 2: INTRODUCTORY NOTE
By Elizabeth C. Barney Buel
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A cultural and technological history of the household spinning implement traces its development from prehistoric hand-distaff methods through archaeological and artistic evidence in ancient societies to the later appearance of the wheel. The essay surveys practical spinning techniques, the manufacture and use of linen and other fibres, and the implement’s close ties to agricultural and domestic labor. It also considers symbolic meanings attached to spinning, showing how the tool became an emblem of women’s work, household economy, and communal identity across regions and eras.

INTRODUCTORY NOTE

The Tale of the Spinning-Wheel is revised and enlarged from a paper read before the Litchfield Historical Society, Litchfield, Connecticut; New England Society in the City of New York, Waldorf-Astoria, New York City; Mary Floyd Tallmadge Chapter, D. A. R., Litchfield; Judea Chapter, D. A. R., Washington, Connecticut; Massachusetts Society of the Colonial Dames of America, Boston; Katherine Gaylord Chapter, D. A. R., Bristol, Connecticut; Connecticut Society of the Colonial Dames of America, New Haven, and also in Hartford; Denver Chapter, D. A. R., Denver, Colorado; Warren and Prescott Chapter, D. A. R., Boston, Massachusetts; Orford Parish Chapter, D. A. R., South Manchester, Connecticut; National Arts Club, New York; Esther Stanley Chapter, D. A. R., New Britain, Connecticut; Annual Spring Conference, Connecticut D. A. R., at Middletown; Dorothy Ripley Chapter, D. A. R., Southport, Connecticut; Wiltwyck Chapter, D. A. R., Kingston, New York; Litchfield Club, Litchfield, Connecticut, etc., etc.