from Carluke, Lanarkshire & Lanarkshire
These two wooden hand reels are for winding wool. The reel on the left is from Lanarkshire, the one on the right from Carluke in Lanarkshire.
Hand-reel, from Carluke, Lanarkshire
Until the middle of the nineteenth century by far the greatest part of Scotland's population was occupied in either textile manufacture or in agriculture. Spinning and weaving were, for most people, the two most important tasks outside food production.
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