Moving on to the second floor...the superbly splendiferous spinning room! Mmmmmm...
This is where women, and children entered the production process. The women operated the machines and the kids ran the errands :)
First the wool was spun from the big bobbins downstairs onto more manageably sized cones.
While the enormity of some of the machines spinning the thread from the bobbins to cones was truly astounding, the view from the window was not bad either!
As you can see, a lovely light pink shade at about 2:30 in the afternoon...
This is also where they got to do cool things like spin different colours into one thread, so we can all make cool things like gorgeous speckly socks! Yay!
Next time I will spin us from here up to the knitting room....wooohooooo.....
2 comments:
I enjoy learning new things as you blog about them - and what gorgeous photos of the spinning machines! I'm just glad to see what uses the blog can be put to. You're sure getting comments on it now that you mentioned spinning... My Christmas greetings to you -- through my blogsite :) Annette
un. believable. what a fantastic place. look at the view. how weird for it to be dusk at 230 in the afternoon! perfect conditions for knitting by firelight, of course :)
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