{"id":19818,"date":"2025-03-11T17:02:14","date_gmt":"2025-03-11T18:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/museu-angra.cultura.azores.gov.pt\/others\/historical-pieces\/spinning-wheel\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T10:08:00","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T11:08:00","slug":"spinning-wheel","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/museu-angra.cultura.azores.gov.pt\/en\/others\/historical-pieces\/spinning-wheel\/","title":{"rendered":"Spinning Wheel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text has-media-on-the-right is-stacked-on-mobile is-vertically-aligned-top\" style=\"grid-template-columns:auto 40%\"><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p>The image of a woman spinning with a spindle in Ancient ceramics, or of a woman using the spinning wheel in medieval illuminations, besides its impact on the child\u2019s imagination, helps us not only to chronologically situate these technological innovations but also to consider spinning as an important attribute of women of that time.<br data-start=\"350\" data-end=\"353\"\/>The first spinning tool\u2014the spindle\u2014is nothing more than a slender stick with a disc fitted at the lower end, which serves to accelerate the horizontal rotational movement transmitted to the fibers in an upward spiral motion, controlled by the spinner, producing the twist in the fibers, or more precisely, combining them into a thread as long and strong as possible.<br data-start=\"720\" data-end=\"723\"\/>The spinning wheel, either hand-operated or foot-pedaled, increased thread production and is believed to have spread from the 14th century onward. In any case, this spinning device is essentially an innovation derived from the spindle, which is placed horizontally and connected to a driving wheel, increasing productivity and allowing the woman to spin while seated when using a foot pedal.<br data-start=\"1114\" data-end=\"1117\"\/>This piece belongs to the Ethnography Collection of the Museu de Angra do Hero\u00edsmo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Text | Maria Helena Ormonde, &#8216;in&#8217; \u201cInstrumentos e trabalho e de Cultura\u201d, MAH, 2017<\/p>\n<\/div><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"630\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/museu-angra.cultura.azores.gov.pt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/banner-50.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12506 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/museu-angra.cultura.azores.gov.pt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/banner-50.jpg 630w, https:\/\/museu-angra.cultura.azores.gov.pt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/banner-50-300x190.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The image of a woman spinning with a spindle in Ancient ceramics, or of a woman using the spinning wheel in medieval illuminations, besides its impact on the child\u2019s imagination, helps us not only to chronologically situate these technological innovations but also to consider spinning as an important attribute of women of that time.The first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":19114,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-19818","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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