Spindle

A spindle carved in one piece, with double and intertwined reed inlays, with a decorative knob on top. For spinning thread the spinners always used the distaff together with the spindle – a frtekin. It was a tool on which the spinner wound the spun thread. Spindles differed in size and in the quality of wood; the bourgeoises used spindles of more elegant and thinner shapes.

Datation and origin: 19th century, Koper.