Spinning Wheel – Sifton
The Sifton spinning wheel is an important part of Canadian craft history. The small community of Sifton, 30 kilometres north of Dauphin, was the centre of an active wool milling and related manufacturing between 1930 and the 1950s. John Weslowski, a blacksmith, first made these wheels in the early 1930s. The blacksmith shop became the Spin-Well Manufacturing Co., run by John and his brother George. By 1938 they were producing 20 wheels a day.
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