Spinning Wheels and Tinto House

I did rather well this morning - a few days ago I saw a dress I liked advertised on Facebook, and there was something pretty much identical on the clothes stall in the Cheese Market this morning, in my size, so I snapped it up.

I was just showing it to a friend outside the Post Office when the lady from Fleur de Lys antique centre came across and said she had something to show me.
She's just brought a treadle spinning wheel into the shop and had it standing in a corner with a bag of bits that belonged to it. It was obvious straight away that it was a beautifully made spinning wheel, though it was also obvious that it needed a bit of TLC to get it to spin again - the string that goes round the wheel was tangled, and some pieces were disconnected.
There were plenty of bits in the bag, though, including a decorative band with the tablets for tablet weaving still attached at one end, and another woven band with a tiny rigid heddle still attached to it. The wheel was made, Susie said, of ash and elm.
The best thing, though, was that the wheel had come with a booklet on hand spinning, with the original bill of sale still inside.
It was made at Tinto House in Hay in the 1980s, when it was a craft shop and workshop. Now it's a rather nice B&B, with a lovely garden at the back, and Tim the Gardener's little bookshop in the side passage.