Category: SpinningWheels101

Different Configurations of Wheels

• Saxony (horizontal arrangement)
• Upright  or Castle (vertical arrangement)
• Other- ultra compact travel wheels, etc.

Age Categories

• Antique (100+years old)
• Vintage (40-99 years old)
• Modern

• Broken Table
• Double Table
• Split Table
• Accelerated
• “Frankenwheel”
• “SWSO“(spinning wheel shaped object)

• Single Treadle vs. Double Treadle
• Single Drive vs. Double Drive
• Tensioning System: screw, tilt, other
• Size of wheel, Ratios

• In single drive, your drive band is directly contacting either the flyer or the bobbin,
• In double drive, your drive band is contacting both flyer and bobbin
• In single drive, the difference in rotational speeds of the bobbin and flyer is caused by a brake band on one or the other.
• In double drive, the difference in rotational speeds is dictated by the difference in diameter of bobbin and flyer pulleys.

Single Drive

• Flyer –lead:  driveband moves the flyer, brakeband on the bobbin
• Bobbin-lead: driveband moves the bobbin, brakeband on the flyer

Double Drive

• Driveband makes two loops, one around flyer pulley, and one around bobbin pulley.