Spinning wheel
XI. He beareth a Spinning Wheele.
There are several sorts of these kinds of Spinning
Wheeles; some for standing of going, a second sort
for sitting, and the lesser sort to be carried.
Related text(s) Long wheel Sitting wheel Jersey wheel Girdle wheel
Reel and reel pin
XII. He beareth a Reel between a Quill and
a Reel Pin. These are three very necessary Instruments of Housewifry, the Quill to spin the Yarn
upon; as is manifested by Figure 14. and the Reeling
Pin (which some call a Knave, or Reeling Prick)
which is for the Spool to run or turn upon whilest it is
Reeling upon the Reel, as numb.19.
In the Wheel Quill there is these parts and terms.
The Feathers, and its Teeth.
The Spindle with its Holes and Screw.
The Spool, with its String nick or Gutter.
The Whorve with its Screw Plate and Gutter.
In the Reel there are these parts.
The Reel body or part which it is held by.
The Holding head, which is an over-cross end piece
with a Button at each end.
The Slipping head, is another over-cross end piece set
cross the other head, it hath a Button at one end, the other is to slip the Reeled Yarn off, having as much on, as
the Housewife thinks convenient, which is called a Slipping of Yarn.
In the Reeling Pin, there is only the Handle, and the
Iron Pin, on which the Quill Yarn turneth in the Reeling of it.
Quill
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Yarringles
XIII. He beareth a Pair of Yarringles with
its Pins, set upon its Stock, having a Triangle
Foot. This Instrument is also of great use,
with Housewives, by the help whereof Yarn Slippings
or Hanks is wound (after their washing and whittening)
into Clews or round Balls, as in numb.15.
Some term these a Pair of Yarringles, or Yarringle Blades which are nothing else but two sticks, or
pieces of Wood set cross with a hole in the middle to turn
round upon a Wood, or Iron Pin, set in the stock: the
ends are full of holes to put the Pins in lesser or wider according to the compass of the slipping of Yarn put upon
it. Some have these joynted with hinges, to turn treble,
they being the easier for portage; but such are more for
curiosity, then necessity.
The Stock is made of diverse forms, some hath a
Square on the top, with a Wharle in the middle, and
Edged about like the sides of a Box, in which the Clews
are put as they be wound: and this is set upon three or
four Wooden Feet. Others have them thus, being in
form of a Pillar fixed into a square, three cornered or
round foot, either plain or wrought with turned and
carved work to shew the Ingenuity of the Workman, or
the Glory of the Possessor: so that belonging to them
there are all these.
The Yarringle Blades.
The four Pins for the Blades.
The Stock with a Pin in the top on which the Blades
turn.
The Box.
The Foot on which it stands.
The Bobbin or Nogg, a piece of round Wood with
an handle to begin to wind or make the clew on.
The Bead, to draw the Yarn through, that it cut not
the winders Fingers.
Nogg
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On the Dexter side the Yarringle foot, is an Instrument used by Housewives to wind their Yarn upon before
they can bring it into a Clew, and this they call a Nogg,
a Bobbin, or Handle; by which they prepare a Bottom for a Clew.
Bead
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That on the Sinister side the foresaid Foot, is called a
Bead, it is a piece of Box, or other hard Wood, turned round, with a hole through, in which the Yarn runs
when it comes off the Yarringles, that the Yarn do not
cut the Winders Finger, in making the Clew: the first
winding of the Clew on this Nogg, is called the bottom (or Bothom vulgarly) of the Clew: and from hence,
in many places it is named (when all made up) a Bothom
of Yarn, and a Bothom of Thrid.
Quill of yarn
XIV. He beareth a Quill of Yarn.
But if you will go to the exact term of it,
it is by all our best Blazoners termed a Quill, or a
Wheel Quill.
Wharrow spindle
XV. He beareth a Wharrow Spindle:
charged with a Fusile or Spool of Wollen Yarn,
between two Clews of Silver thred.
[By housewives] these rounds
of thrid, have several denomination, either from the
largeness of them, or from the matter they are made off:
for they call them,
A Bottom, or Bothom of thrid.
A Clew or Yarn, Linnen or Wollen.
A Ball of Silver, or Gold thrid.
Spindle
XVI. He beareth a Fusile, or a Clew of
Yarn on a Slipper or Spindle.
These are called Fusiles, from Fusus a Spindle
Yarn; this sort of Spindles are used at long or going
Wheels; but the foregoing is of a different nature being
used by Women at a Distaff under their Girdle, so
as they oftentimes Spin therewith going: the round
Ball at the lower end, serveth to the fast twerlling, and the
long turning of it to twist the thrid, & is called a Wharrow, and therefore is called a Wharrow Spindle.
Spool knave
XVII. He beareth a Spool Knave, with
the Spool Pin therein: In the Base a Spool
of Woollen Yarn.
This Instrument is made of Iron, with a hook to hand
it by the Girdle, so that the good Housewife may walk
about, yet be at her Work. But there is another sort of
Spool Knave made of Wood, with two Standards
mortized in it, standing upright, in which there is holes
made according to the length of it, for two, three, four,
or more Spools to be wound off into Clews, by
several Persons: but especially it is used when a thrid is to
be made two or three Yarns together; and to be wound
off upon one Bottom or Clew together: see the Figure
in the Sinister Chief of this Quarter [and] chap.20 numb.31 [not described there].
Spool knave of wood
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... Spool Knave made of Wood, with two Standards
mortized in it, ... see the Figure
in the Sinister Chief of this Quarter
Ropers winch
XVIII. He beareth a Roper Winch filled with
Rope Yarn, but of this I have spoken before chap.5.
numb.170.
Reel
XIX. He beareth a Reel charged with a
slipping of Yarn.
If in the Reeling of the Yarn upon the Reel, they
chance to lay a thred cross or contrary to the true way of
Reeling: it is in our Countrey termed a Mare.
A Knot is a Hundred threds round the Reel, at which
place Housewives make a Halch, as some call it, or a
Knot, or an Hank.
When it is taken off the Reel and tied up with a Lay
Band, (to keep it from ravalling or running into Snigsnarles or Knotted up it is termed a Slipping of
Yarn: which generally contains a pound Weight.
Hank of yarn
XX. He beareth a Hank of Yarn or Thred.
White thred, or Silk thred, when they are made
up into Skain, are then tied at the top, leaving a
small head, but a long bottom or tail as is set forth
by the Figure on the Dexter side of the square.
Skein of white thread
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[Dexter side image]
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