The spinning wheel is a wooden device, equipped with a large spoked wheel (flywheel), operated by a crank (hand spinning wheel) or a pedal (pedal spinning wheel), and a special spindle equipped with horizontal wings, supported by two brackets that allow it to rotate on its axis. A bobbin is threaded and fixed onto the spindle and the whole is moved in conjunction with the wheel, connected by a transmission cable. The spinning wheel was used to twist the fibres, transform them into yarn and distribute them directly on the bobbin on the spindle and allowed these operations to be carried out more quickly than hand spinning with a spindle and distaff.