{"id":646,"date":"2010-10-21T11:39:44","date_gmt":"2010-10-21T16:39:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stringpage.com\/blog\/?p=646"},"modified":"2010-10-21T11:41:46","modified_gmt":"2010-10-21T16:41:46","slug":"puzzle-solved-already","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/?p=646","title":{"rendered":"Puzzle [solved already]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Regular readers know that I occasionally post a puzzle. People email me with photos of odd things, and I ask the textile HiveMind for help (and if you have a puzzler, please send it!).<\/p>\n<p>[This one was solved before I even got to post it, since I happened to mention this item to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lightlink.com\/rhiannon\/\">a friend<\/a> who has a great deal of expertise in old textile equipment. She owns <i>two<\/i>, and told me exactly what this was.]<\/p>\n<p>A friend who lives in Minnesota showed me this photograph, saying that she&#8217;d inherited the item from her grandfather-in-law.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/photos2010\/puzz20101021-1.jpg\" alt=\"rag rug shuttle filler\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It looks kind of like a spinning wheel, specifically like a charka, but I didn&#8217;t see a bobbin or spindle, and couldn&#8217;t tell what other components it had. Or rather, it looked to me as if a charka mated with a grinding wheel! I asked her for a couple more pictures, and she was happy to oblige, supervised by Gunther. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/photos2010\/puzz20101021-2.jpg\" alt=\"rag rug shuttle filler\" \/><\/p>\n<p>She tells me that it was certainly used by the grandparents on their Minnesota farmstead.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/photos2010\/puzz20101021-3.jpg\" alt=\"rag rug shuttle filler\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Do you recognize it?<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s for filling the tubes that go in the giant rag rug weaving shuttles. There&#8217;s a description with photos <a href=\"https:\/\/wdelight.blogspot.com\/2010\/09\/first-attempt-at-rag-rug.html\">here<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>I can certainly see thrifty and cold Minnesota farmers weaving a lot of rag rugs. I wonder if my friend also inherited the loom?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Regular readers know that I occasionally post a puzzle. People email me with photos of odd things, and I ask the textile HiveMind for help (and if you have a puzzler, please send it!). [This one was solved before I even got to post it, since I happened to mention this item to a friend [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[86,9,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-puzzles","category-spinning","category-weaving"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=646"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":649,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646\/revisions\/649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}