Object data
wood
height 52 cm × width 38.5 cm × depth 33.4 cm
Rijkswerf Vlissingen
Model of a Spinning Wheel for Spun Yarn
Flushing, Netherlands, 1853 - 1854
Provenance
...; transferred from the Ministerie van Marine (Department of the Navy), The Hague, to the museum, 1883
Object number: NG-MC-64
Copyright: Public domain
Entry
Model of an apparatus for making spun yarn. A gear train is mounted between two crosses, consisting of one large central cogwheel and four smaller cogwheels at the ends of the arms. The axles of the small cogwheels are lengthened with a whirl consisting of a hook, and have a cross-pin: the yarn is laid around the cross-pin and through the hook, which will turn it round. The large cogwheel is driven with a handle. One of the arms of the cross is lengthened to attach the spinning wheel to a fixed point.
Both Obreen and Pilaar call this machine a spinning wheel.1 Lieutenant Commander Jan Westpalm van Hoorn van Burgh’s spinning wheel was a slightly improved version of the ones used at the roperies. Spinning wheels of this kind, also called winches, were used for making spun yarn in roperies and according to Pilaar also on men of war.
Literature
J.M. Obreen, Catalogus der verzameling modellen van het Departement van Marine, The Hague 1858, no. 64; J. Boudriot (rev., ed., trans. D.H. Roberts), The Seventy-Four Gun Ship, 4 vols., Rotherfield 1987, vol. 3, p. 96; J.C. Pilaar, Handleiding tot de kennis van het tuig, de masten, zeilen, enz. van het schip, Vlissingen 1857 (rev. ed. by G.P.J. Mossel), pp. 117-18, fig. 68
Citation
J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'Rijkswerf Vlissingen, Model of a Spinning Wheel for Spun Yarn, Flushing, 1853 - 1854', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.242789
(accessed 26 December 2024 14:32:00).