The World of Textile Bobbins & Spools.

The mid 1900's, with its relentless technical advances, was a sad time for the wooden bobbins. With the introduction of open ended spinning and plastic bobbins, traditional spinning and wooden bobbins quickly became a thing of the past.

In the 1950's wooden bobbins became very common  to be of value. So many  of the whole mill stocks and mills were destroyed. Because of there high oil content. which  created hazardous conditions in the mills, that sometime caused fires to burn out of control. So millions of wooden bobbins were thrown away or burned in landfills.

Thank goodness for us avid Bobbin Collectors, the textile bobbins and spools have began a comeback. And many of the bobbins are becomming valuable as they become increasingly RARE.

There are many many differant types of bobbin.

1. Roving bobbin
2. Drawing Bobbin
3. Warp spinning bobbins
4. Spinning Frame Bobbin
5. steamer Bobbin
6. Heavy Yarn Twister w/doffling knob
7. Quill bobbins
8. Universal  in-house winder cone

                     Just to name a few. There are 100's of other types.

There are Great resouce guides out there for the serious bobbin collector.My favorite one is THE WORLD OF WOODEN BOBBINS.