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Hutsul Land Ethnopark in Bukovel ski resort

IVANO-FRANKIVSK REGION, UKRAINE - JANUARY 31, 2025 - A spinning wheel and barrels are lined up at the stove in the sheepmans house at the Hutsul Land Ethnopark in the Bukovel ski resort, Ivano-Frankivsk region, western Ukraine. (Photo by Yurii Rylchuk/Ukrinform)

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Premiere of Herbs play in Kyiv

KYIV, UKRAINE - MAY 9, 2024 - Actors perform during the premiere of the Zillia (Herbs) play based on the V nediliu rano zillia kopala (On Sunday Morning She Gathered Herbs, 1909) novel by Ukrainian modernist writer Olha Kobylianska at the Kyiv National Academic Youth Theatre, Kyiv, capital of Ukraine.

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INDIA-PUNJAB-AMRITSAR-BAISAKHI FESTIVAL

(240410) -- AMRITSAR, April 10, 2024 (Xinhua) -- A woman wearing traditional Punjabi attire works on a spinning wheel during a fair celebrating the Baisakhi festival at a college in Amritsar district of India's northern Punjab state, April 9, 2024. Baisakhi is one of the most popular festivals celebrated in the Indian state of Punjab to mark the harvest. (Str/Xinhua)

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INDIA-PUNJAB-AMRITSAR-BAISAKHI FESTIVAL

(240410) -- AMRITSAR, April 10, 2024 (Xinhua) -- A woman wearing traditional Punjabi attire works on a spinning wheel during a fair celebrating the Baisakhi festival at a college in Amritsar district of India's northern Punjab state, April 9, 2024. Baisakhi is one of the most popular festivals celebrated in the Indian state of Punjab to mark the harvest. (Str/Xinhua)

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Mahatma Gandhi spinning at his wheel

Mahatma Gandhi, Indian nationalist and spiritual leader, spinning at his wheel (Charakha) in 1931, demonstrating his strong work ethic. Date: 1869 - 1948

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An old couple spinning cotton

Country people are spinning yarn in a village, a common scene during the Meiji Period. A large amount of cotton is visible in the bamboo basket in front. This task was performed by elderly couples. The woman is spinning the yarn from cotton, turning the wheel with her right hand.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:Kajima Seibei, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number84‐22‐0]

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Spinning

A woman with a hair cover in anesan-kaburi style is spinning thread on a spinning wheel. The shoji screens suggest that it is a workshop. A mat is spread on the tatami floor, but the seams are not visible.==Date:Middle Meiji (1883-1897), Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number61‐17‐0]

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Woman weaving silk

A woman weaves a silk material on a loom. To the right is a spinning wheel. Silk production prospered in Japan after import of silk thread was regulated during the Edo era by means of the thread warifu (quota) system. After that, the silk industry developed into one of the main Japanese exports.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:Kusakabe Kinbei, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number40‐48‐0]

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Cotton-spinning

A woman sitting on a cushion on a veranda turns the spinning wheel with her right hand and looms cotton thread. To the left is a box containing cotton, and at the back is shoji (paper sliding doors)==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number12‐42‐0]

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Silk spinning

A spinning wheel is turned by hand using a combination of toothed wheels. Silk spinning was a traditional craft in northern Kanto, and by the middle of the Meiji era, some areas had developed it into a manufacturing industry.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:Ogawa Kazumasa, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number7‐49‐0]

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Cotton-spinning

Two women loom cotton on a spinning wheel. The woman to the right has her sleeves tied with a string and wears a scarf over her head. She is spinning a wheel with her right hand and pulling the thread with her left hand. The cotton is placed on the tatami. A scroll hangs in the alcove to the rear.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:Ogawa Kazumasa, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number6‐49‐0]

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Mani prayer wheel in Bhutan

Pupils dressed in traditional clothes spin a Mani prayer wheel in Thimphu, the capital of Bhutan, on Aug. 20, 2019. It is believed in Tibetan Buddhism that spinning such a wheel will have much the same meritorious effect as reciting prayers. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo