Swift Spindle

Dateca. 1830

Mediumwood, brick, wool

Dimensions9 3/4 × 15 × 7 1/2 in. (24.8 × 38.1 × 19.1 cm)

ClassificationsTools & Equipment for Materials

Credit LineAlbuquerque Museum, gift of McIntosh

Object numberPC1968.31.6

DescriptionThe Swift is a spindle used for winding cotton or wool fibers, it consists of two round plates held together with six sticks in the middle supported on a notched base. The spindles are made of brown finished wood with yellow cup-shaped disks at the top. The base for the spindles is a wooden board painted yellow which rests on the edge of a red brick. There is an extra skein of yarn in addition to the one already wrapped on the Swift.

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