This is a wool carder owned by the Copp family of Stonington, Connecticut during the 18th and 19th century. The carding process is part of preparing wool for spinning into yarn. Wool is brushed between two hand carders (see DL*006833.02) to align fibers in the same direction. The wool is rolled off the carder into a rolag and then spun.
The Copp Collection contains a variety of household objects that the Copp family of Connecticut used from around 1700 until the mid-1800s. Part of the Puritan Great Migration from England to Boston, the family eventually made their home in New London County, Connecticut, where their textiles, clothes, utensils, ceramics, books, bibles, and letters provide a vivid picture of daily life. More of the collection from the Division of Home and Community Life can be viewed by searching accession number 28810.
This is a wool carder owned by the Copp family of Stonington, Connecticut during the 18th and 19th century. The carding process is part of preparing wool for spinning into yarn. Wool is brushed between two hand carders (see DL*006833.02) to align fibers in the same direction. The wool is rolled off the carder into a rolag and then spun.
The Copp Collection contains a variety of household objects that the Copp family of Connecticut used from around 1700 until the mid-1800s. Part of the Puritan Great Migration from England to Boston, the family eventually made their home in New London County, Connecticut, where their textiles, clothes, utensils, ceramics, books, bibles, and letters provide a vivid picture of daily life. More of the collection from the Division of Home and Community Life can be viewed by searching accession number 28810.
Thai cotton fiber cleaning device; 19th C.. On the catalog card, 'roller gin' has been crossed out and replaced by 'cotton cleaner.' Part of Royal Siamese Commission, displayed at Louisiana Purchase Exposition.
Early 19th century Saxony style flax spinning wheel. (distaff may have been separated from the wheel. This type of wheel, with treadle and distaff, is more complex than the great wheel, as the drawing, spinning, and winding are made simultaneous by means of the flyer and bobbin attachment to the spindle. The distaff on the standard at the opposite end of the frame from the wheel, has been evenly covered with prepared flax fiber--untangled and parallel and a ribbon tied loosely abound it to keep it in good order. Treadle?, the foot is used as poser, and the hands are free to draw out and guide the fiber to the spindle. While best adapted for spinning flax, wool or cotton can be spun upon it, but from rolls of carded material fed by hand directly to the spindle. The initials R.C. are stenciled on the frame. The Distaff is made from a tree branch with twigs pulled together and tied at top to form the cage.
White-painted oval wire or woven fiber basket filled with polychrome wax flowers attached to wire stems, the entire display covered by an oval, clear colorless glass dome or shade on an oval, gilded wood base with four ball feet. Flowers inside the basket include budding and blooming roses, carnation, dahlia, daisy, fuschia, peonies, Stargazer lily and more; lilies-of-the-valley and what appear to be snowdrops are wrapped around the arched basket handle with painted fabric ivy leaves. No marks.
Thai thread winder. Original catalog card calls this a thread winder, fiber not differentiated. Part of an acquisition in 1905 by the US National Museum, from the St. Louis World's Fair of 1904, of Thai (Siamese) textile-working tools and equipment from the Royal Siamese Commission.
A post mounted keyless socket for a medium-screw based lamp. Brass "acorn type" shell, plastic retaining ring, red fiber board contact insulator. No extant maker's marks.
A post mounted keyless socket for a medium-screw based lamp. Brass "acorn" type shell, plastic retaining ring, red fiber board contact insulator. No extant maker's marks.