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Quilley Winder


Children generally acted as winders otherwise it was women’s work. Newly spun yarn was wound onto reels or made into skeins.

A niddy noddy was used to transfer yarn from hanks to bobbins.

These hanks of yarn could be weighed and then wound onto bobbins, locally called quills. The Museum has a mechanical bobbin winder which speeds up a tedious job.