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X-WR-CALDESC:Come join other antique spinning wheel enthusiasts for a weeke
nd of information sharing and learning!\n\n\n\nTENTATIVE SCHEDULE\nsubjec
t to change\n\nFriday July 18\, 2025 1:00-4:00\n-optional:\n-Hands on
Flax Processing with Gina Gerhard hands-on session of flax processing whe
re everyone can work with flax tools\n-Spinning Wheel Repair- using common
tools we will work with wood\, leather\, and wire to make common repairs
on antique spinning wheels. Hands on demos to include making leather beari
ngs\, cleaning out old bobbins and replacing leather bearings\, and replac
ing hooks\n\nFriday July 18\, 2025\n-6:30-7:00 Registration and Reception
\n-7:00-8:00 Mark Ware- Somerset County wheel makers and some rare and unu
sual wheels in the collections at Somerset Historic Center\n-8:15-9:15 Tou
r of the Somerset Historic Center\n\n\nSaturday July 19\, 2025\n-9:00-9:30
hot beverages/snacks\n-9:30-10:30 Enrica McMillon- Great Wheel Tension Me
chanisms- A discussion of the various types of tensioning mechanisms found
on great wheels including single screw\, sliding\, barrel\, green stick a
nd double nut. We will explore the areas the different tension systems wer
e found and other identifying characteristics\n-10:45-11:30 Florence Feldm
an-Wood- Moving-Spindle Spinning Wheels in Review\nMoving-spindle wheels h
ave fascinated me for many years and I have been\nresearching\, writing\,
and lecturing about them. In this lecture you will learn how to identify\n
pendulum wheels\, lever-action wheels\, and track wheels. These are just a
few variations of the\nmoving-spindle wheels American and Canadian invent
ors devised during the mid-19th century.\nTheir aim was to make handspinni
ng more efficient and easier for the handspinner. Diagrams\nwill illustrat
e how these complex wheels functioned. For some of the U. S. patented whee
ls\,\npatent models still exist.\n-11:30-12:30 lunch-included in registrat
ion\n-12:30-1:00 Travel to Springs Historical Society of the Casselman Val
ley https://www.springspa.org/museum.php\n-1:00-4:00 Beth Page-director- T
he family of Joel B. Miller\, spinning wheel makers and their wheels follo
wed by tour of the museum\, their collection of textile tools including ma
ny made by the Miller family\n\nDinner- on your own\n\n-6:30-8:30 Spin-In
at Somerset Historic Center\n\nSunday July 20-2025\n-9:30-10:00 light refr
eshments\n-10:00-11:00 Mathilde Lind- Estonian Spinning Wheels\n\n-11:15-1
2:00 Erika Keller- Heinrich Zuber-19th century spinning wheel maker in Mon
tgomery County PA\n-12:00-1:00 Lunch-included in fee\n-1:00-4:00 Choose tw
o workshops when registering: Each workshop will be given and hour and 20
minutes with a 20 minute break in between workshops\n#1- Spinning fine lin
en and flax tow. We will have a variety of linen and tow wheels for viewin
g and some for spinning. Also to be discussed: dressing various types of d
istaffs and the use of an Estonian winding tool\, 'the Nix.' Each particip
ant will be given a Nix to take home.\n#2- Tips on great wheel/spindle whe
el spinning. Hands on fiber prep with a drum carder and hand carders\, mak
ing corn husk and leather bearings\, spinning on multiple great wheels for
practice\n#3- Those Crazy Wheels! Up close look at moving spindle wheels\
, pendulum wheels and other oddities. You can even try out a pendulum whee
l.\n\n\nCancellation policy: Refunds possible prior to July 1\, 2025.
A $50 processing/administrative fee will be subtracted from refund.\n
\nAbout The Presenters\n\nFlorence Feldman-Wood
Florence\nFlorence Feldman-Wood has been publishing the quarterly newslett
er\, The Spinning Wheel\nSleuth\, A Newsletter about Spinning Wheels and R
elated Tools\, since 1993 and the annual\nHand Looms Supplement since 1998
. Her favorite area of research is patented moving-spindle\nwheels. She ha
d the unique opportunity to photograph and study the patent models of spin
ning\nwheels at the Smithsonian in Washington\, DC.\n\n\nGina Gerhard\nGin
a is an historic textile demonstrator specializing in flax as well as wool
en and worsted\nspinning and natural dyeing. She enjoys collecting origina
l flax tools\, spinning wheels\, and a\nwide variety of period linens and
woolens. She was one of the planners of the Flax & Linen\nSymposium held i
n 2016 at Historic Deerfield\, and recently relocated to the Eastern Shore
of\nMaryland and now demonstrates at historic sites in the mid-Atlantic a
rea.\n\nErika Keller\nErika has been repairing antique spinning wheels for
over 8 years. Her extensive woodshop and\ncollection of wood working tool
s in combination with her collection of over 100 antique\nspinning wheels
allow her to fabricate repairs in a sympathetic manner to the original. Er
ika has published numerous articles on repair in The Spinning Wheel Sleuth
Newsletter and presented at the Textile History Forum and the Antique Spi
nning Wheel Symposium.\n\nMathilde Lind\n\nEnrica Hofer McMillon\nKnown on
Ravelry as White Oak Grandma\, Enrica’s interest in great wheels stems fr
om\nearly childhood\, when she was taught to spin by her grandmothers. She
was raised on a\nfarm in one of the most remote parts of West Virginia. T
here\, older people were still living a\n19th century horse and buggy life
style\, including spinning yarn for utilitarian uses.\nEquating spinning w
ith fairy tales\, Enrica wanted to spin\, finally being taught at age seve
n.\nShe has been spinning ever since. Prompted by the back-to-the-land mov
ement of the\n1970’s\, she began teaching others to spin.\nAfter the adven
t of social media she discovered there were people who believed ALL\nwheel
s from the Appalachian region and in general the southeast\, had the chara
cteristics\nattributed to Appalachian wheels in Pennington and Taylor’s “A
Pictorial Guide to American\nSpinning Wheels”. Though generally accurate\
, Enrica was familiar with other qualities\,\nincluding tension systems. A
nything she posted to the contrary was dismissed\, prompting\nher to begin
a study of great wheels and their locations based on sales listings poste
d on\nRavelry. Her main focus was to show where various tension types were
found.\nThe way she organized her files made the database useful for rese
arching other information\non great wheels. That database now includes nea
rly 10\,000 wheels and has taught her\nmore about great wheels than she ev
en thought there was to learn\, including a better\nunderstanding of Ameri
can history.\n\nMark Ware\nBesides having researched Somerset County wheel
makers\, Mark worked several decades with\nthe Pennsylvania Historical an
d Museum Commission as a Museum Educator and recently retired as the Execu
tive Director of the Somerset County Historical Society. He learned to spi
n at the age of\n12\, shared an interest in Spinning wheels with Elizabeth
Haupt\, collector of spinning wheels and\ninherited her collection upon h
er death. Together\, they traveled around PA presenting\ndemonstrations of
flax/wool processing and spinning.\n\n\n
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DESCRIPTION:Come join other antique spinning wheel enthusiasts for a weeken
d of information sharing and learning!\n\n\n\nTENTATIVE SCHEDULE\nsubject
to change\n\nFriday July 18\, 2025 1:00-4:00\n-optional:\n-Hands on
Flax Processing with Gina Gerhard hands-on session of flax processing wher
e everyone can work with flax tools\n-Spinning Wheel Repair- using common
tools we will work with wood\, leather\, and wire to make common repairs o
n antique spinning wheels. Hands on demos to include making leather bearin
gs\, cleaning out old bobbins and replacing leather bearings\, and replaci
ng hooks\n\nFriday July 18\, 2025\n-6:30-7:00 Registration and Reception\n
-7:00-8:00 Mark Ware- Somerset County wheel makers and some rare and unusu
al wheels in the collections at Somerset Historic Center\n-8:15-9:15 Tour
of the Somerset Historic Center\n\n\nSaturday July 19\, 2025\n-9:00-9:30 h
ot beverages/snacks\n-9:30-10:30 Enrica McMillon- Great Wheel Tension Mech
anisms- A discussion of the various types of tensioning mechanisms found o
n great wheels including single screw\, sliding\, barrel\, green stick and
double nut. We will explore the areas the different tension systems were
found and other identifying characteristics\n-10:45-11:30 Florence Feldman
-Wood- Moving-Spindle Spinning Wheels in Review\nMoving-spindle wheels hav
e fascinated me for many years and I have been\nresearching\, writing\, an
d lecturing about them. In this lecture you will learn how to identify\npe
ndulum wheels\, lever-action wheels\, and track wheels. These are just a f
ew variations of the\nmoving-spindle wheels American and Canadian inventor
s devised during the mid-19th century.\nTheir aim was to make handspinning
more efficient and easier for the handspinner. Diagrams\nwill illustrate
how these complex wheels functioned. For some of the U. S. patented wheels
\,\npatent models still exist.\n-11:30-12:30 lunch-included in registratio
n\n-12:30-1:00 Travel to Springs Historical Society of the Casselman Valle
y https://www.springspa.org/museum.php\n-1:00-4:00 Beth Page-director- The
family of Joel B. Miller\, spinning wheel makers and their wheels followe
d by tour of the museum\, their collection of textile tools including many
made by the Miller family\n\nDinner- on your own\n\n-6:30-8:30 Spin-In at
Somerset Historic Center\n\nSunday July 20-2025\n-9:30-10:00 light refres
hments\n-10:00-11:00 Mathilde Lind- Estonian Spinning Wheels\n\n-11:15-12:
00 Erika Keller- Heinrich Zuber-19th century spinning wheel maker in Montg
omery County PA\n-12:00-1:00 Lunch-included in fee\n-1:00-4:00 Choose two
workshops when registering: Each workshop will be given and hour and 20 mi
nutes with a 20 minute break in between workshops\n#1- Spinning fine linen
and flax tow. We will have a variety of linen and tow wheels for viewing
and some for spinning. Also to be discussed: dressing various types of dis
taffs and the use of an Estonian winding tool\, 'the Nix.' Each participan
t will be given a Nix to take home.\n#2- Tips on great wheel/spindle wheel
spinning. Hands on fiber prep with a drum carder and hand carders\, makin
g corn husk and leather bearings\, spinning on multiple great wheels for p
ractice\n#3- Those Crazy Wheels! Up close look at moving spindle wheels\,
pendulum wheels and other oddities. You can even try out a pendulum wheel.
\n\n\nCancellation policy: Refunds possible prior to July 1\, 2025. A
$50 processing/administrative fee will be subtracted from refund.\n\n
About The Presenters\n\nFlorence Feldman-Wood Fl
orence\nFlorence Feldman-Wood has been publishing the quarterly newsletter
\, The Spinning Wheel\nSleuth\, A Newsletter about Spinning Wheels and Rel
ated Tools\, since 1993 and the annual\nHand Looms Supplement since 1998.
Her favorite area of research is patented moving-spindle\nwheels. She had
the unique opportunity to photograph and study the patent models of spinni
ng\nwheels at the Smithsonian in Washington\, DC.\n\n\nGina Gerhard\nGina
is an historic textile demonstrator specializing in flax as well as woolen
and worsted\nspinning and natural dyeing. She enjoys collecting original
flax tools\, spinning wheels\, and a\nwide variety of period linens and wo
olens. She was one of the planners of the Flax & Linen\nSymposium held in
2016 at Historic Deerfield\, and recently relocated to the Eastern Shore o
f\nMaryland and now demonstrates at historic sites in the mid-Atlantic are
a.\n\nErika Keller\nErika has been repairing antique spinning wheels for o
ver 8 years. Her extensive woodshop and\ncollection of wood working tools
in combination with her collection of over 100 antique\nspinning wheels al
low her to fabricate repairs in a sympathetic manner to the original. Erik
a has published numerous articles on repair in The Spinning Wheel Sleuth N
ewsletter and presented at the Textile History Forum and the Antique Spinn
ing Wheel Symposium.\n\nMathilde Lind\n\nEnrica Hofer McMillon\nKnown on R
avelry as White Oak Grandma\, Enrica’s interest in great wheels stems from
\nearly childhood\, when she was taught to spin by her grandmothers. She w
as raised on a\nfarm in one of the most remote parts of West Virginia. The
re\, older people were still living a\n19th century horse and buggy lifest
yle\, including spinning yarn for utilitarian uses.\nEquating spinning wit
h fairy tales\, Enrica wanted to spin\, finally being taught at age seven.
\nShe has been spinning ever since. Prompted by the back-to-the-land movem
ent of the\n1970’s\, she began teaching others to spin.\nAfter the advent
of social media she discovered there were people who believed ALL\nwheels
from the Appalachian region and in general the southeast\, had the charact
eristics\nattributed to Appalachian wheels in Pennington and Taylor’s “A P
ictorial Guide to American\nSpinning Wheels”. Though generally accurate\,
Enrica was familiar with other qualities\,\nincluding tension systems. Any
thing she posted to the contrary was dismissed\, prompting\nher to begin a
study of great wheels and their locations based on sales listings posted
on\nRavelry. Her main focus was to show where various tension types were f
ound.\nThe way she organized her files made the database useful for resear
ching other information\non great wheels. That database now includes nearl
y 10\,000 wheels and has taught her\nmore about great wheels than she even
thought there was to learn\, including a better\nunderstanding of America
n history.\n\nMark Ware\nBesides having researched Somerset County wheel m
akers\, Mark worked several decades with\nthe Pennsylvania Historical and
Museum Commission as a Museum Educator and recently retired as the Executi
ve Director of the Somerset County Historical Society. He learned to spin
at the age of\n12\, shared an interest in Spinning wheels with Elizabeth H
aupt\, collector of spinning wheels and\ninherited her collection upon her
death. Together\, they traveled around PA presenting\ndemonstrations of f
lax/wool processing and spinning.\n\n\n
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LOCATION:10649 Somerset Pike\, Somerset\, PA 15501 US
SUMMARY:Antique Spinning Wheel Symposium
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