The "rueca" or spinning wheel is a tool used in the past to make thin cords with your own hands. It had the shape of a wheel and it was usually made of wood or steel. This is composed of various parts. which one of the parts is the object that we were investigating:

     A.  Wheel: Is what turns when you pedaland it makes the other parts work.
     B.   Belt: Cord that sorrounds the wheel and the flyer whorl.
     C.   Flyer: This is our investigation object. It's a tool that has an U shape with hooks in each of his
            extremities.
     D.   Flyer whorl: It's a pulley that it's attached to the flyer and it's moved by the belt.
     E.   Maidens: Sticks that support the flyer and the spool.
     F.   Mother-Of-All: A long bar where all the upper elements are hold.
     G.   Tension switch: It's function is to regulate the tension of the cords.
     H.   Stool: It stores the wool before being used and spins because of the flyer.
     I.     Pedal: Spins the wheel.
     J.     Footman: Bar tha connects the pedals and the wheel anc by this connection when the pedals are
            pinned the wheel spins.
     K.   Hole: Is the name given to the hole that has the flyer so that the wool coul get through.


Web page used for this post:
Hormiguica.blogspot.com.es. 2011. Hormiguica: Teoría de la rueca. [online] Available at: http://hormiguica.blogspot.com.es/2011/05/teoria-de-la-rueca.html [Accessed: 7 Apr 2014].


Daniel Casado Faulí
Javier Ayala de Miguel

First Impressions and investigation
When we first saw the photo of our objects, there were many different opinions, we were pretty sure that it was a drill, (although I was quite confident about it being a torture device), we started from that point, and gooogled: "ancient drills" there were some pictures which looked similar, but still our object still looked different. Then we realised why was it different, ours had a hole at the bottom, and we were so tired we left it there. Later, we continued investigating, we were observing other posibilities (including the one of the torture device), but then we, casually, found an image of an ancient spinning wheel, and realised that our object, was a piece of it, it was not exactly the same, but now the bit of the hole made sense. We looked for more images, because we couldn't fing in the spinning wheel the handle, so when we find one which was exactly the same, we got excited. We found that it was a piece of the machine called flyer.