Canada Vignettes: The Wool Spinner

19792 minFilm: Documentary

Direction: Rita RoyJoe MacDonald

Production: Andy ThomsonDouglas MacDonaldFloyd Elliott

Script: Joe MacDonald

A vignette illustrating the procedure used in pioneer days to spin sheep's wool into skeins for knitting clothing.

Other versions

Canada vignettes : la fileuse de laine

Subject categories

  • Crafts > Leather, Wool and FabricsTextile Crafts
  • History - Canada - Pre-1867 > Pioneer Life
  • History - Canada - 1867-1919 > Social Life
  • Canada - Images of a Country > Vignettes

Credits

director
Rita Roy
Joe MacDonald
producer
Andy Thomson
executive producer
Douglas MacDonald
Floyd Elliott
script
Joe MacDonald
editing
Rita Roy
narrator
Lorna Brown