Cool Looking and Super Useful Modular, Rotating Antique Turned Wood Spool Holder old steel lock especially lovely

especially lovely

which makes it feel like painting

Whether from a church or once strapped to a chain link fence on the roadside I'm not sure

These came from a collection in Missouri

I especially like the form of this one

Cool Looking and Super Useful Modular, Rotating Antique Turned Wood Spool Holder old steel lock especially lovelyI found this one at antiques shop in Maine and was struck by what a handy spool holder it would be with twelve pegs for spools on the rotating wheel, which one could spin like a lazy susan to have the right color immediately at hand. But also I think it is really cool for its completely modular construction, with each of those arms (like spokes) made up of a dowel threaded with a series of turned bits that hold a second dowel the bobbin holder in