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Spindle-Back Armchair
•Date: 1640-80
•Geography: Possibly made in Boston, Massachusetts, United States; Possibly made in Charlestown, Massachusetts, United States
•Culture: American
•Medium: Ash
•Dimensions: 44¾ × 23½ × 15¾ in. (113.7 × 59.7 × 40 cm)
•Classification: Furniture
•Credit Line: Gift of Mrs. J. Insley Blair, 1951
•Accession Number: 51.12.2
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 708.
The rarest and grandest of the early turned chairs are those with rows of spindles below the seat as well as above it. Although its boxlike form may look simple at first glance, this chair is a complex composition with subtle variations in the shaping of the rungs and in the spacing of its horizontal and vertical members.
Provenance
Descended through eight generations in the family of John Tufts, Sherborn, Massachusetts; Wallace Nutting, Framingham, Massachusetts, by 1921; Mrs. J. Insley Blair, Tuxedo Park, New York, 1921-died 1951.
Timeline of Art History (2000-Present)
Essays
•American Furniture, 1620-1730: The Seventeenth-Century and William and Mary Styles
Timelines
•The United States, 1600-1800 A.D.
MetPublications
•American Furniture in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Vol. I, Early Colonial Period: The Seventeenth-Century and William and Mary Styles
•The American Wing at The Metropolitan Museum of Art
•“A Bicentennial Treasury: American Masterpieces from the Metropolitan”: The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, v. 33, no. 4 (Winter, 1975-1976)
•The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Vol. 9, The United States of America
Hubby gave me roses for last Valentine with a vase. Knowing me, he knew I would use something for the vase for my hobby. He didn't think I'd use it for this. I thought this works wonderfully!
I'm not satisfied with this composition/depth of field exercise. Will have to try again, once we have some sun!
9/12/08
Blogged: fiberdrunk.blogspot.com/search/label/homemade spindles
Spindle, dis-assembled. The parts are arranged along a horizontal axis. There are two rows. The top row shows the main spindle and the body that it fits into. The bottom row shows the 6mm internal shaft. The arrangement shows the items that would be on top (during operation) on the left. Note the spring loading on the 6mm shaft. Is this the drawbar? I also discovered (after disassembly) that this inner shaft is threaded on the "business" end (right hand side, or "bottom" end.) This 6mm shaft has been broken off at this threaded end. Perhaps why the spindle was removed from its machine and discarded? I note the threads are also 1mm. Could this be the drawbar? What collet sizes would fit on such a threaded shaft?
On my fossils spindle. It has some of my best fossil finds in it, including a little ichthyosaur bone (the one at the front in the pic). The fibre is a merino/silk/silver blend from Fyberspates.
10/21/07
Spun on the Miss Lucy P's Che-Chen Dichroic Glass Spindle-- 10/22/07
Unknown wool. It came with the Miss Lucy P’s Che-chen Dichroic Glass Spindle.
43.0 yards (39.3 m) sport weight
eBay spindle seller: Miss Lucy P's
Spindle-spun Superwash BFL which I dyed in 'Apple Blossom' colours. This is about 225 metres of dk weight yarn, I'm planning to make some (small) socks with it.
Experimenting with teeny, tiny spindles for earrings.
Left: Cocktail stick, black bone disc, sock darning thread. 23mm.
Right: Q-tip, labradorite. 37mm.
I've also found some mismatched bamboo knitting needles that may be useful for larger "whorls" :-) Next stop: Experimenting with oil, beeswax and laquer surfaces.
I change the 2 spindles to my left hand while the ply is being added, then wind onto the 3rd spindle.
Spindle from www.high-lowwhorldropspindle.co.uk/
Fibre from Yarnzombie (http://www.flickr.com/photos/yarnzombie/ and www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5363840)