Chapter 6, Item 11a
Long wheel
The first is the large Spinning Wheele, called a long Wheele, or a going Wheele, or a Woollen Wheele, because Woll is principally, nay only spun at it, and at none of the other sorts of Wheels. This Wheel consists in these parts.
The Stock standing on four Feet.
The Standard which bears the Wheel.
The Axle-tree on which the Wheele turns.
The Wheel in which there is the Nave, the Spokes, the Rimm.
The head Standard, or two Pillars which bears the Spool.
The Spool on which the Wheel string is put.
The Spindle on which the Yarn is turned.
The Wheel string that turns the Spool and Spindle.
The Wheel finger by which the Wheel is turned.
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Chapter 6, Item 11b
Sitting wheel
The second, is the sitting Wheel, generally called the Spinning Wheel; which is made after the form of the Draught set forth in this numb. 11. all that Spin at it use to sit, being the Wheel withal its appurtenances are not above a yard high.
And of these there are three sorts, first the Countrey Farmers Wheel, which is in all respects like the long Wheel abovesaid, only this hath the Distaff at it, which the other hath not; this is a Spool, the other a Spindle.
The City Wheel, or Gentle Womans Wheel, because of its more curious making: this is adorned with many tricks and devises, more to shew the Art of the Turner, then to add any goodness to the working of the Wheel. In this Wheel there are these several parts, with their names given to them.
The Stock or Wheel stock, and Feet.
The Quill Box and Button with the Lid or cover.
The Standard or Stoops for the Axle-tree of the Wheel to rest upon.
The turned Pinns to keep the Wheel in the --- of the Standards.
The Axle-tree.
The Button of the Axle-tree.
The Nave, middle of the Wheel.
The Spokes.
The Rimm and Riget, to keep the string on.
The Spires, little turned Buttons with points set between the Spokes to adorn it.
The Screw Pin, and Screw Box in the stock, by which the string is drawn up or let down slacked.
The over-cross or handle of the Screw.
The Bosse or Cup.
The over-cross for the Maidens or Damsels.
The Maidens or Damsels, the two Stands in which the Spindle turns.
The Leather that holds the Spindle in.
The Spindle, the Iron Pin with the hole or eye for the Thrid to pass through.
The Feathers or Fly, or Wing: is that which the crooked Wyres are set in.
The Quill is that as the Yarn is spun upon.
The Whorf, or Wharve, is that as the Wheel string turns upon.
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Chapter 6, Item 11c
Jersey wheel
The Jersy Wheel, or Double Spool Wheel, by which Jersy is only spun; it hath a Tradle, or Foottread, by which the Wheel is turned about, so that an ingenious Spinner can and may work with both hands, and do as much in a Day as another at a single Wheel shall do almost in two.
The Jersy Wheel that is single differeth nothing from the foresaid Wheel save in the Tradle and Distaff which are turned to a Jersy Distaff, and an Instrument to turn the Wheel with the Foot, if the Spinner please to use it: and they are termed
In the Jesey Distaff, is the shank by which it is set in the over-cross, which is fixed to the Distaff body or stand, see it between numb. 29 and 30.
The Bowl on which the Ball of Jersy lyeth.
The six Pillars which keeps the Jersy from running off the Bowl, being fixed in it.
The Leather on the Bowl side, through which the Jersy is drawn to Spin.
For the Wheel to turn with the Foot, there is the Tradle on which the Foot is set.
The Tradle Staff, which goes from the end of the Tradle to the Axle-tree of the Wheel.
The Tradle Axle-tree hath an Iron Button at the further end on which the Staff hangs.
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Chapter 6, Item 11d
Girdle wheel
The third is the Girdle Wheel or the small Wheel; it is a Wheel so little that a Gentle-woman may hang it at her Girdle or Apron string and Spin with it, though she be walking about. It is made and composed of Wood, Brass, and Iron: having two Wheels with Nuts on the Spindles with several other giggam bobbs pleasing to Ladies that love not to over toil themselves with this sort of work: therefore may fitly be termed the Do-Little-Wheel, whose parts are these.
The Stock to which all the other work is fixed.
The Frame.
The Feet.
The Pillars which holds up the piece in which the Brass Wheels are.
The greater Brass Wheel which hath Forty teeth in it, which turns.
The lesser Brass Wheel or Nut, which hath Twenty Teeth in it, which turns.
The small Wheel of Wood,
The Wheel string which comes from it to the Feathers.
The Feathers, Spool, Whorve.
The Distaff wich hath a Standard, and Cross piece.
The Handle and Axle-tree.
The Hooks by which it hangs to the Apron string, or Girdle. As for the Antiquity of Spinning and the Necessary use of it, we have undoubted Precedents as Exod 35, 25, 26 ...
Nay it is a token of the most Honorable Women to follow the Spindle and Distaff as Prov. 31, 13, 19, 21, 22, 23, 24.
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