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Maker(s):Unknown
Culture:American
Title:Spools
Type:Textile Working Tool
Materials:Maple and wool
Place Made:North America; United States
Accession Number:  MH SK B.22.A.47.1
Credit Line:Joseph Allen Skinner Museum, Mount Holyoke College
Museum Collection:  The Joseph Allen Skinner Museum at Mount Holyoke College
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Description:
Long wooden spools, too long to fit in a traditional boat shuttle, one wound with indigo handspun wool.

Label Text:
SKINNER CATALOG: Five 7 1/4 inch, narrow head, maple spools, on which to wind yarn. One is partly filled with hand spun dark blue wool yarn, spun in 1931.
"Cat. 12/4/1936"

Subjects:
Wool

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