spindle British Museum

Spindle or 'dealgan', carved wood, a conical plying spindle with small knop at top, the base of the cone with grooves for yarn in the form of a cross cut on the underside. Black and white wool yarn wound together round spindle, with long length of attached brown wool wound round folded paper, and separate length of black wool also wound round folded paper.

Tools and equipment; Spindle whorl; Orange / Oxidised Ware

The People of Palmyra: funerary busts @ The British Museum…

spindle British Museum

spindle-whorl British Museum

spindle-whorl British Museum

A woman's work was never done: spinning in medieval art – PLY Magazine

Kornbluth British Library, British Museum 5th-9th c.

spinning-wheel British Museum

spindle British Museum

Henry Moore: The Sixties - Restoring 'Large Spindle Piece'

Spindle-whorl, Thailand, Cambodia, Kampong Thom

spindle British Museum

Sculptures of Jeddah

Coast Salish spindle whorl made of wood, collected from Nanaimo

Shale spindle whorl - Virtual Museum