Summary
Like so many ancient crafts, handspinning is far from dead and gone, and there’s a vibrant international community of spinners with their own literature, events, and makers of new tools. Still, the old wheels are constantly at risk, as collectors pass away, institutions shut down and disperse their collections, and time and circumstances take their toll through water damage, fires, woodworms, pet damage, and lost parts. Collectors and users of old spinning wheels are a fraction of the larger handspinning community, so there are only so many homes for these grand old tools,
and each spinner can only take in so many spinning wheels.
