Stock photography picture of Spinning Wheel

AYG9P0 - Licenced Caption Spinning Wheel Description A woman using a traditional spinning wheel with a single band and friction brake, first the fibres are pulled through the flyer and its turning twists them into thread. The flyer also winds the threads on to the boddin. Before using the wheel she works the wool fibres by carding ( a fine tooth comb ) it, this removes unwanted fibres and prepars them. she also uses tools with names like niddy noddy lazy kate carder. Once a traditional home-based cottage industry, alover the country, sheep and goats coarse sharry fleece's where spun