Charity Shop Find- What is this? Calling sleuths.

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I bought this- a chair of some sort. It is very small stands only 62cm high, just above my knee.
Was ridiculously cheap.
Woman in the charity shop told me it was a "Welsh Nursing chair" but admitted she was guessing.
Is is a child's chair? It is surprisingly comfortable, and atlthough the back is small does give some support.
The back has a carved flower- I am guessing a Tudor Rose- so maybe not Welsh.
There are also carvings of wheat or grass on the seat on the back.
How old?
Any ideas?

It is 100% a spinning chair. I have one which I use for its intended purpose. Mine is Yorkshire oak and was made in 1944. It has an identical flower which I have always assumed was a Yorkshire rose, but a flax flower is an interesting theory as chairs like this were used for flax spinning before they were used mainly for wool (because small seated treadle wheels were used for flax when Great Wheels, or walking wheels, were still used for wool).

blog.oschaslings.com/linen-a-surprisingly-scottish-story/

I had no idea linen was such a big industry in Scotland, but it makes sense, it’s important in N Ireland.
www.electricscotland.com/history/industrial/industry10.htm

Having Googled flax plants I bet you are right about that.
I also think that would point to it being 19th century or older as the 20th century spinning revival was more about wool AFAIK.

Yes it could be a flax flower, not a Tudor Rose, which means it may well be Scottish, not Welsh.

You realise that now you will have to buy a wheel to go with it and learn to spin?

Luckily you can get prepared fibres online from World of Wool - you don't need to grow your own

I'm glad to see it isn't a nursing chair, you'd have to be some kind of masochist to try feeding a baby while sitting on that.

It is a lovely spinning stool though, what a great find!

can we see a photo of the flower? just because I'm nosey

ignore me didn't notice second photo. lovely chair