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A photo from our Eason Collection that may well have been used by Eason's as a postcard. The shy wife is using a spinning wheel and I think that the grandmother(?) is carding wool...Nice info in from @MakeOneYarns ( https://twitter.com/#!/MakeOneYarns/status/176676439293308930 ) on Twitter that this was what was called a walking wheel, which is the oldest type without a bobbin and flyer. She said:."... used after development of hand spindles, before development of flyer/bobbin mechanism. Check medieval mss illus."..Date: Circa 1900..NLI Ref.: Eas 4077 ( EAS_4077 )

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1900 - 1909
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National Library of Ireland
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