The Monastic Fiber Arts Guild

The Ancient Arts of Spinning, Weaving and Cloth Making

Stand ye at the crossroads and look, and ask for the ancient Ways, where the good path is, and walk therein, there ye shall find rest for your souls. Jeremiah 6:16


Walking Wheel, Colonial Period 1605-1775

Ashford Traditional Spinning Wheel, New Zealand

Saxony Spinning Wheel 1890-1900


Antique Handcrafted Floor Loom

 

Double Drive Spinning Wheel, Early 1900's

Vintage Leclerc Tapestry Loom


1877-1890 White VS Treadle

1913 White Rotary 3 Drawer Treadle

 

1915 White Rotary Treadle Sewing Machine


Weasel and Carders, early 1900's


 Irish Spinner and Spinning Wheel. This color photochrome print was made between 1890 and 1900 in Ireland.

Ghandi at his spinning wheel

 

 

Frigga, the foremost goddess of Norse mythology, spinning clouds.