| 1 | On real wooden spinning wheels. | |
| 2 | The first accepted image of a spinning wheel appears in 1210. | |
| 3 | The spinning wheel, in all likelihood moved by hand, was known by the beginning of the Christian era. | |
| 4 | Stained glass panel in the Cathedral of Chartres, the first depiction of a spinning wheel. | |
| 5 | There is an image of a silk spinning machine powered by a water wheel that dates to 1313. |