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This is a winder, also sometimes known as a 'Niddy-Noddy'. It is a device for winding thread or yarn onto from a spinning wheel. The museum holds no information about where this winder was made or used.

1 winder: wood; good condition

MERL 'Handwritten catalogue' form – 'WINDER // Also known as a "Niddy-Noddy" Another example in the Castle Museum, York.', Letter, W. S. Redhed to Mr Jewell, 25 January 1961 - 'I am wondering if you are familiar with the device which was known here as a "Niddy-Noddy". Thread or yarn was wound onto it from the spinning wheel. It seems likely to me that it ws used by anyone who did not have what we call a "Clock-Reel" or a "Yarn-Winder".'