spinning wheel

Collection of Auckland Museum Tamaki Paenga Hira, 1994X1.690

[1930s]

'Martin' spinning wheel

Dorothea Turner owned one of his wheels which she remembered had been given to her by her mother, but she knew only that it had come from "down south".

The Beauchamp family of South Canterbury had a number of wheels made for their craft enterprise during the depression by the young engineer Harold Martin. An account of their spinning and weaving enterprise was published in The Web, June 1981 pp. 26-27.

New Zealand

wood/plant material

height 990 x width 900 x depth 480 mm

990mm

900mm

480mm

Wheel, Spinning

Textile Manufacturing Equipment

Textileworking T&E

04 Tools & Equipment for Materials

16 Aug 2022