Lambton Musings LAMBTON’S HISTORY AND HERITAGE NEWSLETTER – WINTER 2023
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Travelling Home Forest Museum Staff In 2021, the Forest Museum received a donation of a spinning wheel with an interesting story. This beautiful wool wheel arrived in carefully padded boxes in a transport truck all the way from Vancouver. Wool wheels are typified by a large flat rimmed drive wheel. The wheel may have a diameter of almost 50 inches. The whole apparatus stands about five feet tall. The wheel drives the spinning mechanism The Transportation by means of a cord of tightly twisted cotton or linen. The wheel is mounted on a post rising from a narrow table or bench. The table is usually supported by three legs. The spindle is mounted on a post rising from the front end of the bench. These spinning wheels are also referred to as great wheels because of their size. In North America, particularly in Ontario, they are