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The Middle Ages (30) : Wool Spinner

The Middle Ages (30) : Wool Spinner

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Mark Billiau.


Premium (World), region Antwerp, Belgium

The Middle Ages (30) : Wool Spinner

This series is an attempt to illustrate how life was going on in the Middle Ages.

Being a wool spinner was a very useful profession in those times.

The spinning wheel was invented in Asia, probably in the 11th century and was introduced into Europe 2 centuries later.

In 1533, an unknown citizen of Braunschweig (Germany) added a treadle to the device, by which the wool spinner could rotate the wheel with one foot and have both hands free to handle the wool (before that the spinner always had to use one hand to turn the wheel)

Photographed at medieval festival of castle Franchimont (Belgium).

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