Spinning Wheel Pendant

The spinning wheel, so bound up with fairy tales and mythology, so woven through music, art, literature, Gretchen am spinradde from Goethe’s Faust, Sleeping beauty,  Dvorak, Saent-Saëns’ Le Rouet d'Omphale… the list become endless.  Why’ Because the spinning wheel, so utilitarian and yet so beautiful, has a rhythm of its own, a sense of continuity and purpose, of inevitability, of fashioning something out of nothing… something warm and beautiful.  It increased the production (and productivity) of thread by a facto of ten and through the production of rags also enabled the mass production of paper. So much for such a humble instrument!

Humble but beautiful.

Carry this symbolism with you in this faithfully reproduced spinning wheel, designed to sit well and offer a decided talking point, whether you are a spinner or weaver, artisan, crafter or simply a believer in the magic of fairytales!  Available in all metals, our most popular being in the sterling silver range.