Winding wheel

Winding wheel with hand crank

Woman at the winding wheel in a house weaving mill, Max Liebermann "Der Weber" (1882)

A winding wheel is a technical tool for moving up and around spools of yarn in the hand and domestic weaving .

A winding wheel consists of a winding mandrel and a drive. The construction may resemble a spindle spinning wheel , i.e. H. consist of a flywheel on a three-legged or four-legged bench and the mandrel holder. The drive can also, for. B. be done by a worm gear or today by electric drive. The flywheel is usually operated by hand, but foot-driven winding wheels are also used.

On the winding mandrel which are coils attached. There are two completely different types of bobbins in the weaving mill, the heavy, wooden warp bobbins and small, light weft bobbins, which have mostly been made of pressed cardboard since the 20th century. B. were also made from hollow elder branches. To work with warp bobbins, it is necessary that the winding mandrel is much longer and more massive than for weft bobbins. That is why there are interchangeable mandrels.

The yarn to be wound is either on other bobbins or balls or is laid as a strand on a yarn winch .

Winder wheels have been proven by illustrations since the middle of the 14th century, always in combination with the new European flat loom. So they seem to have appeared in Europe at the same time as the spindle spinning wheels .

Bobbin winding was a job that in earlier centuries was mostly assigned to the wives of the weavers or children.