Spinning and carding

Spinning and carding

ID: QZP99_93154_09_07 DESCRIPTION: The woman on the right is using a Saxony spinning wheel while the other has a pair of wooden boards to disentangle the wool fibres, a process known as 'carding'. The Saxony wheel is the type still used for hand-spinning. It replaced the the muckle ('large') wheel, which was very basic in design and required more effort from the user. This image comes from a collection gifted to Edinburgh Central Library by Dr Isabel F. Grant. The collection includes photographs taken by a number of different photographers. PLACENAME: unidentified CREATOR (AV): I F Grant SOURCE: Edinburgh and Scottish Collection, Edinburgh Central Library COLLECTION: I F Grant Photographic Archive Asset ID: 38539 KEYWORDS: