Spinning Collection

Rock and roll dancing couple

The Man Who Missed The Ball On The First Tee At St. Andrews
Golfer spinning around after an overly violent swing. 1925

Mahatma Gandhi spinning at his wheel
Mahatma Gandhi, Indian nationalist and spiritual leader, spinning at his wheel (Charakha) in 1931, demonstrating his strong work ethic

German and Norse Myth
Freya (Freija/Frigga) spinning the clouds

Braidwater Spinning Mills, Ballymena - a view of the factory by the river. (Location: Northern Ireland: County Antrim). Date: circa early 1900s

Welsh woman with spinning wheel, Wales
Welsh woman outside a cottage with a spinning wheel, Wales. Date: late 19th century

Fairground carousel. Time-exposure image of a merry-go-round at a funfair

Ballerina Margot Fonteyn
New York, New York: September 15, 1950 Ballerina Margot Fonteyn in a production of Swan Lake

Maple seed flight path. Multi-flash photo composition of a maple seed (Acer sp.) spinning as it falls. Maple seeds are attached to the tree in pairs

St Elizabeth of Hungary Spinning Wool for the Poor, 1901. Elizabeth (1207-1231) was the daughter of Andras II of Hungary

Mill Workers - Spinning - Rochdale, Lancashire. Date: 1911

Ducati 999 F04 Italy

Sleeping Beauty pricks her finger by Arthur Rackham
The crucial moment in the story of Sleeping Beauty when Beauty pricks her finger on a spinning wheel thus sending her to sleep for a number of years

Soay sheep - shedding fleece, Highland Wildlife Park
MAB-209 Soay sheep - shedding fleece Highland Wildlife Park, Scotland, UK Ovis aries Originated from St Kilda in Outer Hebrides

Dressing Shetland Shawls
Women from the Shetland Islands dress Shetland wool shawls on large racks Date: 1908

Scenes of peasant working life, Ireland
These illustrations show women and men engaged in activities such as carding wool, spinning, sowing, threshing, minnowing and scutching

Traditional lace making, Le Puy en Velay, Haute-Loire, France, Europe

Traditional lace making, Le Puy en Velay, Haute-Loire, France, Europe

Sleeping Beauty by Arthur Rackham
Princess Briar Rose, aka Sleeping Beauty, pictured in a perfect pose as she sleeps for a hundred years after pricking her finger on the spindle of a spinning wheel

Castlemilk Moorit ram at Cotswold Farm Park
MAB-34 Castlemilk Moorit ram at Cotswold Farm Park UK The farm park houses a large collection of rare breeds of cattle, sheep

Emma Hamilton / 4 Poses
EMMA, LADY HAMILTON Wife of Lord Hamilton, mistress of Lord Nelson, in four poses: The Bacchante, Nature, The Spinstress, and Sensibility

Spinning Harris Tweed
Production of Harris Tweed. A typical scene in an island home as the crofter spins her yarn

Spinning Harris Tweed
Production of Harris Tweed. The wool is carded and spun; carding loosens the wool and ensure it is fine enough to spin

Lake District Farmhouse
Low Tilberthwaite Farm & Barn, a typical farmhouse in the Lancashire part of the Lake District, England. Note the spinning gallery, used for drying out wool. Date: 17th century

Woman spinning - India
Woman spinning on a traditional hand-made wheel, India

Rock and roll dancing couple. Date: 1960s

Old woman (witch or fairy) spinning, 1547. Artist: Hans Holbein the Younger
Old woman (witch or fairy) spinning, 1547. Woodcut attributed to Holbein from an edition of De consolatione philosophiae by the Roman scholar and philosopher Boethius

Woman with spinning wheel, Isle of Harris, Scotland
On the Isle of Harris, Scotland, a woman uses an elegant old spinning wheel to make Harris tweed, while her dog sleeps beside her. Date: 1920s

American Sherman Crab, army tank with chains spinning on a cylinder attached by steel arms

Quaker women spinning in church
Quaker ladies doing their chores while at worship services. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Old English Sheepdog turned into wool
An Old English Sheepdog with its enterprising owner, who has spun its coat into balls of wool for knitting

Ufos / Fry / Merlin
Contactee Daniel Fry, thanks to his extraterrestrial friends, was able to film this spinning UFO over Merlin, Oregon

Wind turbines on Bodmin Moor, near Bodmin, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, Europe

Production of Gounods Faust by Carl Rosa Opera Company
Characters from Charles Gounods opera Faust in a touring production by the Carl Rosa Opera Company

N. of Ireland Flax Spinning Industry, Drawing - an interior view of a machine for drawing flax in a spinning mill, this is a side view of the machine showing the belt drives. (Location: Ireland)

N. of Ireland Flax Spinning Industry, Reeling - a view of a girl operating a reeling machine in a spinning mill. (Location: Ireland). Date: circa early 1900s

Irish spinner and spinning wheel. County Galway, Ireland. Date between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900

Brunette twirling her dress in front of a blue-nosed P-51 Mustang
Brunette twirling her dress at golden hour in front of a blue-nosed P-51 Mustang fighter plane

A Corrymeela Farm Kitchen - an interior view of two ladies sitting beside a fire with griddle and pot. One of the ladies is working a spinning wheel

A Corrymeela Farm, Cushendun - a view of a thatched cottage with lady outside feeding a pig, to the left is a spinning wheel. (Location: Northern Ireland: County Antrim: Cushendun)

Mule Spinning
1st January 1909: A young boy mule spinning at Joness Cotton Mill, Manchester. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Ufos / Fry / Merlin
Contactee Daniel Fry, thanks to his extraterrestrial friends, was able to film this spinning UFO over Merlin, Oregon Date: May 1964

Ufos / Fry / California
Contactee Daniel Fry photographed this spinning UFO at Joshua Tree, California [2 of 5] Date: 1965

Dividing cells. Computer artwork of a spiral of cells during mitosis (nuclear division). During mitosis two daughter nuclei are formed from one parent nucleus

Bose-Einstein condensate simulation. Computer simulation of vortices forming within a spinning Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC). A BEC is a state of matter that can arise at very low temperatures

Faroe Islands, Denmark - Women Spinning
A woman working at a spinning wheel with two companions - The Faroe Islands, Denmark

Star trek over Monument Valley, tracing stars moving round the North Star, Monument Valley, an area in Utah and Arizona, United States of America (U.S.A.), North America

Child Labour
Girl spinning wool at Fosters mill, Bradford, Yorkshire, England

Lancashire Spinning Mill Victorian period

A weaver weaving fabric on a loom in a cottage. Handcoloured woodcut engraving from The Book of English Trades and Library of the Useful Arts, Phillips, London, 1818

Marshalls Flax Mill, Leeds, Yorkshire 1843
Drawing heckled flax at Marshalls Flax Mill, Leeds. Female workers operate machines to create an even strip from the flax fibres that have previously been heckled, 1843

Paisley, Scotlands Industrial Souvenir. 1905

Mill Hill Spinning Co Ltd, Bolton, Lancashire
Concerning Cotton - Mill Hill Spinning Co Ltd, Bolton. 1920

Portrait of a Lady spinning. Artist: Heemskerck, Maarten Jacobsz, van (1498-1574)
Portrait of a Lady spinning. Found in the collection of Thyssen-Bornemisza Collections

Spinning wool, Glen Columbkille, County Donegal, Ireland
Woman in her cottage spinning wool in Glen Columbkille (Glencolmcille, Gleann Cholm Cille), County Donegal, north-west Ireland. Date: circa 1900s

Fine Hand Hackling and Sorting Yarn in a Spinning Mill - an interior shot showing a man hackling flax by hand at a bench by a window. (Location: Ireland). Date: circa early 1900s

Irish Flax Spinning Industry, Spreadboard, Front View - as above but the front view of machine. (Location: Ireland). Date: circa early 1900s

N. of Ireland Flax Spinning Industry, Spreading (Back of Machine) - an interior shot of machines for spreading flax in a spinning mill. (Location: Ireland). Date: circa early 1900s

A Loughshore Cottage near Maghery, Winding Bobbins on Old Wh
A Loughshore Cottage near Maghery, Winding Bobbins on an Old Wheel - a woman outside a thatched cottage with spinning wheel and three girls. (Location: Northern Ireland: County Armagh: Maghery)

N. of Ireland Flax Spinning Industry, Bundling Yarn - a view of the spinning process where the yarn is bundled in a spinning mill. (Location: Ireland). Date: circa early 1900s

Valdagno, Italy - Textile Factory Date: 1919

India - An Indian Woman Spinning in an ornate entrance
A black and white lantern slide of an Indian Woman Spinning on a wheel in the ornate entrance to a Temple. Part of Box 221 Boswell Collection Date: circa 1890s

Irish Village Colleens, Franco-British Exhibition, London
Three Irish Village Colleens with a donkey and a spinning wheel at the Franco-British Exhibition, held at White City, West London. Date: 1908

C12 Weaving
Weaving in 12th century England, while a flock of sheep are there to provide the wool Date: circa 1160

Heart in space heading towards a vortex, conceptual image

At Eve I Bring Thee Roses by Florence Hardy
A young Dutch girl sits by a spinning wheel while her suitor peers through the window having presented her with a bouquet of red roses

Castlemilk Moorit ram at Cotswold Farm Park
MAB-33 Castlemilk Moorit ram at Cotswold Farm Park UK The farm includes a collection of rare breeds of cattle, sheep, pigs and poultry and is situated next to a working farm in Temple Guiting

FIREWORKS 1747 - 7
Techniques of firework making in 18th century France : various types of whirling and spinning devices

Sleeping Beauty - 5
Beauty comes upon the old woman spinning in an upstairs chamber of the palace. The cat and the crow should be a warning to her that the old woman is a witch

Woman winding up thread at weaving workshop on Lake Inle, Nyaungshwe Township, Taunggyi District, Shan State, Myanmar

Sewing thread being manufactured at the Nottingham factory of Ws Godber. 30th August 1965

Bazaar and fancy fair in Dublin, 1882
Bazaar and fancy fair in the Exhibition Palace, Dublin, in aid of the Masonic Female Orphan School, 1882

Weaving at Priestley's Mill for the dress that was worn at the opening of the Bradford Exhibition by Princess of Wales (Queen Mary). Date: 1904

The Aurora Borealis Dances Over The Top Of A Vibrant Spiral Light Painting, The Blurry Figure Of A Man In The Middle Of The Light Painting, Moonlight Casting Shadows On Snow Covered Spruce Trees On A

"I am spinning, pretty one, answered the old woman, who did not know who she was." Sleeping Beauty meets the old woman with the spinning wheel. Date: 1911

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"Spinning through time: From Braidwater Spinning Mills to fairground carousels" Step back in time and witness the art at Braidwater Spinning Mills, located in the charming town of Ballymena. Feel the rhythm as a rock and roll dancing couple twirls across the dance floor, their moves reminiscent wheels in motion. In 1901, St Elizabeth of Hungary dedicated herself to spinning wool for the poor, showcasing how this ancient craft can bring warmth and comfort to those in need. Delve into German and Norse mythologies where tales spin intricate webs of gods and heroes, entwining fate with every turn. Ballerina Margot Fonteyn gracefully spins on her toes, captivating audiences with her ethereal movements that seem to defy gravity itself. Witness Mahatma Gandhi's peaceful revolution as he spins cotton at his wheel, symbolizing self-sufficiency and resistance against oppression. A Welsh woman sits by her spinning wheel in Wales, preserving traditions passed down through generations while creating beautiful yarns. Mill workers tirelessly spin thread in Rochdale, Lancashire; their skilled hands weaving fabrics that clothe nations around the world. The Ducati 999 F04 roars down Italian roads like a whirlwind - its speed matching the exhilarating sensation of being caught up in a cyclone. Sometimes life throws unexpected twists our way - just like "The Man Who Missed The Ball On The First Tee At St. Andrews, " reminding us that even when we stumble or miss our mark initially, there is always another chance to spin success from failure. Observe maple seeds taking flight on their unique spiral path; nature's own demonstration of perfect balance achieved through graceful rotation. And finally, let your heart soar as you ride a fairground carousel - its vibrant colors blending with joyful laughter as it spins you round and round.