Description: Wooden rug making or weaving frame. With note to Bruce Komusin dated 30 March 2006. "This frame was given to Irene Bartlett by Louise Sorenson (Barbara Brooks' sister) 1960s or 70s (along with lots of wool) when she was clearing things out of the house. If you can use it at the new Historical Center and/or your craft demonstration/fundraiser I would love to donate it to the center. Frances [Bartlett]"
Description: Record player. Portable, hand-crank Victrola. Tan snakeskin-like exterior, metal arm. Turntable speed control marked Birch. No other markings on it.
Description: Rug, braided, oval; starting in the center, predominantly green, brown, and orange patterned loops grow larger, then the colors change to blue, pink, brown, and red, culminating in a black border; colors in each loop change even within the loop; the fourth and fifth loops from the outside have become disconnected, and several other loops are loose.
Description: Jugs. Two ceramic jugs. (A): large, white with four blue floral designs; wide mouth chipped inside the rim and inside on the bottom, efflorescence on the outside bottom perhaps from water stored inside leaking through the chipped glazing and affecting the inner ceramic. (B) is a large white pitcher with similar floral patterns.
Description: Three-legged base for a 'walking' or 'great' spinning wheel. Base was originally from the attic of the Scudder house on the north shore of Islesford. Head is termed a 'minor' head made of wood and iron; it came from the donor's wheel in Sullivan, Maine. Donor is a spinner and weaver, and lectures about heritage textiles. She noticed GCIHS had a wheel with no base in collection (GCIHS 2015.312.2072). The two parts married up perfectly. Wheel dates to ca. 1880s; Shakers made this type of great wheel. [show more]
Description: Wheel from a 'walking' a.k.a. 'great' spinning wheel. Smooth wooden wheel, 45" diameter with brass core in hub of wheel. Rusted nail heads visible where wood overlaps on exterior of wheel and also where several spokes meet the wheel. No other parts of this walking wheel have been located. (It may have come from the Liebow house originally.) This wheel was installed on a 2018 donation of a spinning wheel base from Islesford that fits perfectly. [show more]
Description: Small, wooden, four-legged flax spinning wheel with flat table, grooved wheel. "FARNHAM Near Owego" impressed into base. This four-legged wheel is missing part(s). [Note: http://collections.mohistory.org/resource/198156.html says Joel Farnhan was a wheelwright and cabinet maker who moved from PA to Owego NY in 1794.By the 1820s he had a well-established milling and wheelwright business which passed on to his youngest son Frederick, who began producing his own wheels by the 1840s.] [show more]