The wooden thing is called a swift. It’s for winding skeins of yarn into what are called cakes, similar to balls of yarn, so it doesn’t get tangled when knitting with it.
The umbrella thing is a wool winder. You put a skein of wool on it and then you can easily make balls of yarn without the skein becoming a knotted mess.😊
It was me that thought I had seen the keyhole in the back of the cabinet that made my day to see y'all check it out it was an awesome feeling to know that someone Halfway Around the World is paying attention to the comments I left a big thank-you from Joshua Breeden from Virginia in the USA that put a smile on my face and warmed my heart I love your Channel and tell your brother I said keep smiling it would be nice to see more of him one here
So - OK, your wool comes in a skein. The skein is twisted, but when you open it up, it is a circle of yarn like a coiled garden hose - the yarn just goes around and around in a circle about 18" in diameter. It is amazingly easy to get a skein all tangled, so you want to wind the wool into a ball. You put the skein over the swift and push the swift so that it opens up and the little arms come out to the width of the circle. The swift will hold the skein in place and whirl around as you wind your ball from it. All so that the wool doesn't get all tangled up and drive you crazy while you're knitting.
@@girlnorthof60 oh I remember that well lol burning arms having to keep it taut or you would get a swift nagging from the winder lol worse if they had multiple skeins!
@@suemount6042 😣 there was no nodding off, that's for certain. My arms felt like they had lead weights on them after what felt like hours of multi-skein holding.
@@girlnorthof60 oh I remember that oh so well used to feel like the skein got longer and heavier the more time went by didn’t it and heaven help you if you slacked off lol
@@girlnorthof60 my mum was exactly the same lol no mercy what so ever and a never ending skein haul to wind as an only child I prayed for a sibling to share the agony lol
When Gwen and Angelina are away the boys will play and possibly get themselves in trouble on the third creepy floor in the dark. It’s a wool winder. Billy you have good friends, and they’re lots of fun. I think you still have more mysteries to discover in the convent. Phil, this was a fun video and I’m glad you survived. xx
Suggestion to Billy. Since you have that laser range finder, just measure the length of the hallway, then deduct the dimensions of each cell. This should reveil whether there are any unaccounted for voids. There should be an identical void on the opposite side of the hallway to keep the symitry of the wall placement and make the voids unnoticable.
LOL Phil!!! Your antics with Billy had me laughing from the get go! What you found on the shelf in the room next to the hiding place is actually a yarn winder for wool. Unless you are an avid knitter like others in the comments, you wouldn't have known. Yes, it looks like an umbrella but how it is used: a skein of wool normally does not come in a ball. It comes twisted on itself. To be able to use the yarn to knit a garment or object, you need to put into a ball. The yarn winder does that. You can set it at different widths (big ball or small ball) to accommodate your knitting or crocheting style. Hope that helps you both.
The 3rd floor reminds me of the asylum where I was housed for 17 years. The short doors, the faded paint walls, and floor to ceiling shelves. It was from that wall my horrid little visitor came to me each night. A shelving track slid back and out came the old gent in a surgeons gown. He would talk with me for hours on end, disappearing only when my next round of meds was administered by staff. He told me that he had lived behind the wall for his entire life and that if I didn't get better I'd be joining him. Finally one night I managed to escape and have been free ever since.
The mysterious object is an umbrella swift. You put a skein of yarn on it, opening the swift arms until the yarn is secure, then you wind the yarn into balls -probably for the nuns’ knitting.
You two guys are so funny you should start your own comedy team for Pub nights and call it “ Stories from the Convent “ LOL .Sending laughter and good times from Canada 🇨🇦
When I was a kid, I used to have to hold the skein of wool on my outstretched arms so my grandmother could wind the wool into balls. Wish I had a skein holder! 😂
That is an umbrella swift yarn winder. The yarn would be wrapped around the framework in the “open” position from the spindle then when collapse the umbrella, you pull the yarn of and twist it into a hank.
I love the fun you and Phil have Billy. Phil wasn’t keen on the secret/ hidden room and the top floor. The scratches on the door yikes! That was a bit creepy.
Ha, ha, ha- that object is called an "umbrella swift" and as other's have said, it is for holding a skein of yarn while it is being wound into a ball. Maybe someone you know made you hold your hands up in the air holding a skien of yarn while they wound it into a ball, but the umbrella swift is much more efficient because it spins.
That thing you found is for one of two purposes. I is either an old fashioned dry rack for women's unmentionables that sticks in a sink or tub drain or it is to wind yarn on. I don't think it's the latter because the ones I have seen don't fold. In any case, is broken and will need to be repaired by someone knowledgeable. We enjoyed the tour - that second floor is spooky.
I'm glad you and Billy are such good friends looks like ya'll had fun exploring the convents attic. There is no way I would wonder around the convent alone. Hugs, Kathy 🇺🇸
that wooden thingy is a YARN SWIFT . it does not open bigger than that . its an antique dont force it open more . you take a hank of wool open it up like a big circle put it around the swift and then you take the wool and wind it up by hand or with a yarn winder . The swift is supposed to be anchored to a table so it can spin as you wind . ( I own BOTH thats how I know )
for winding up yarn.. still very much used today. it is used because yarn is kept in hanks, and wound into cakes. when wound tension is placed on the yarn; typically one does not want to put tension on the yarn until the knitting will be done. think of it as having your hair twisted and pulled at all times, it will eventually break.
Love the Bell, Billy! Great addition to the convent! What do the locals think when it randomly is rung?? Phil seems to be living alone for quite a while now. it's good to hang out with a good friend!
It's called a skein winder. A Fiber artist spins the fiber into a yarn and puts the spun yarn on the skein Winder . The yarn is then removed from the Skein Winder and then washed and dried and then put to then end product. Weaving knitting etc.
I just rewatched this. If this was a place to hide a person and valuables, I would hide the most precious thing back behind that cabinet. It's such a tiny space, maybe just put a cell phone back behind the cabinet while rocking it forward to take a look.
I see someone already explained that that weird, umbrella shaped object is a wool winder, also called an umbrella swift. People who spin their own yarn know about those things, amd they are still in use by hand crafters.
I was waiting for that phone to ring and you two to run out squealing. That would have freaked me out again.😮 . Thanks guys, your fear made me smile. 😂😂x
It also reminds me of a form to wind your yarn onto it after you spin it off the spinner wrap it on that fold a couple of times and put your label around it and there is a skein of yarn. Fold it down to stick size to go on the shelf in the cupboard when you're not using it. That with a count for the diagonal sticks.
Hey Phil, so sorry about your hangover, but this was fun, I love it when we get to see all the hidden areas, be it the convent or any of the Chateau's. Go get a good night sleep, you will feel better tomorrow, I promise. Hi to Billy. Love from N.Y.
When the wives are away the Big Boy Will play 😂😂😂😂 You both are so funny 😂😂😂A brilliant video see you both in your next ones 🤗👍🤗👍☕☕☕☕ for the hang over 🤗🤗 Love Sue❤❤❤🇬🇧❤❤❤
Billy has a good cure for a hangover. It's called the haunted halls of the convent. LOL. Thank goodness my drinking days are done. Made for a funny video though.😂
I think there is a larger void space between the store room and the preist hole as the wall length between the two store rooms looks a lot longer. Plus how could you see light through a pitch black void. I think you should look for another false back either in that corner space or behind the large storage cupboard
INCORRECT… A yarn turn had far fewer spokes. Billy…. That “UMBRELLA” is an indoor drying device for ladies unmentionables. The nuns probably used it to hang their black stockings/panties & other undies to dry in their bedrooms or other private areas. The shape is to obviously take up little room. Nuns would have been careful about concealing any sort of under clothing. I suspect they each had one for their rooms or at least enough to spread amongst themselves. I would imagine there was a second piece. (Had a cousin who was a nun & she had one similar.)
That wooden thing looks like the device to wind skeins of wool/flax/fiber. You wind the 'ball' off a looped skein positioned around the edge--it opens like an umbrella to put the right tension on the skein to be wound.
10.12 : Yes, that is called a umbrella. When you have dyed yarn it is in strings, when you want to use the yarn you put the string on the outside and unfold, then the yarn is in a string around and you can easyly use it. Watching this 5 months later, so you probably already know 🙂
It's a swift to wind yarn on instead of having to have some one hold out their arms to hold the yarn while they roll it up. It turns as they roll it. Looks old. Look up Yarn Swift.
Its a yarn swift, for winding yarn into hanks, or for winding hanks into balls to prepare for weaving or knitting. Its missing a clamp on the bottom to attach it to a table.
I still don't understand what light you saw through the cracks in the wood when you found the hidden room. It looks pretty dark in that space. Where is the light coming from?
That is a yarn swift. You can use it for winding and measuring yarn after you spin it. Or it can be used to hold a hank of yarn to help you while you’re making a yarn ball. I have two of them 😊
That object is for winding yarn, you can still buy them but that is definitely antique. I love when Billy take us on a hunt!
It’s a swift for wool yarn to roll into a ball to knit.
Yes it is
I knew if I came to the comments I would find out what it was. Thank you Lisa
That would be logical too....
@@jeanpurvis1620 came here to say the same. I have a modern version sitting in front of me:)
The wooden thing is called a swift. It’s for winding skeins of yarn into what are called cakes, similar to balls of yarn, so it doesn’t get tangled when knitting with it.
Yarn swift
😄 I thought it was an indoor clothes line.
Yea! I got it right and I have only ever seen one before. Proud of my old brain
Just two hungover men, hiding in a hidden closet together. Another normal day. 😂
Bravo to the women below who immediately recognized a yarn swift. Maybe the next hidden find will be a spinning wheel. That’ll creep the boys out.
A spinning wheel with Sleeping Beauty lying on the floor next to it.
Two hungover lads being utterly confounded by a winding swift is just what I needed this morning - thanks!
😂😂😂😂😂
The umbrella thing is a wool winder. You put a skein of wool on it and then you can easily make balls of yarn without the skein becoming a knotted mess.😊
The bell, LOL
It was me that thought I had seen the keyhole in the back of the cabinet that made my day to see y'all check it out it was an awesome feeling to know that someone Halfway Around the World is paying attention to the comments I left a big thank-you from Joshua Breeden from Virginia in the USA that put a smile on my face and warmed my heart I love your Channel and tell your brother I said keep smiling it would be nice to see more of him one here
So - OK, your wool comes in a skein. The skein is twisted, but when you open it up, it is a circle of yarn like a coiled garden hose - the yarn just goes around and around in a circle about 18" in diameter. It is amazingly easy to get a skein all tangled, so you want to wind the wool into a ball. You put the skein over the swift and push the swift so that it opens up and the little arms come out to the width of the circle. The swift will hold the skein in place and whirl around as you wind your ball from it. All so that the wool doesn't get all tangled up and drive you crazy while you're knitting.
@@girlnorthof60 oh I remember that well lol burning arms having to keep it taut or you would get a swift nagging from the winder lol worse if they had multiple skeins!
@@girlnorthof60 Mom used to pay us in lemon drops to sit and hold the skeins. 😊
@@suemount6042 😣 there was no nodding off, that's for certain. My arms felt like they had lead weights on them after what felt like hours of multi-skein holding.
@@girlnorthof60 oh I remember that oh so well used to feel like the skein got longer and heavier the more time went by didn’t it and heaven help you if you slacked off lol
@@girlnorthof60 my mum was exactly the same lol no mercy what so ever and a never ending skein haul to wind as an only child I prayed for a sibling to share the agony lol
Women away, Phil and Billy up to no good.😂😂
why always to excess. cant quit ahead
I think that umbrella like thing may be a wool winder. For winding skiens of spun wool
What a fun tour. ❤
I think Billy should put one of the wardrobes in the attic so it opens into a Narnia room. 😊
I think Michael showed us that one in the attic of the chateau
When Gwen and Angelina are away the boys will play and possibly get themselves in trouble on the third creepy floor in the dark. It’s a wool winder. Billy you have good friends, and they’re lots of fun. I think you still have more mysteries to discover in the convent. Phil, this was a fun video and I’m glad you survived. xx
Sadly, Angelina is not “away”. She’s gone for good. Check her Instagram.
Suggestion to Billy. Since you have that laser range finder, just measure the length of the hallway, then deduct the dimensions of each cell. This should reveil whether there are any unaccounted for voids. There should be an identical void on the opposite side of the hallway to keep the symitry of the wall placement and make the voids unnoticable.
LOL Phil!!! Your antics with Billy had me laughing from the get go! What you found on the shelf in the room next to the hiding place is actually a yarn winder for wool. Unless you are an avid knitter like others in the comments, you wouldn't have known. Yes, it looks like an umbrella but how it is used: a skein of wool normally does not come in a ball. It comes twisted on itself. To be able to use the yarn to knit a garment or object, you need to put into a ball. The yarn winder does that. You can set it at different widths (big ball or small ball) to accommodate your knitting or crocheting style. Hope that helps you both.
The 3rd floor reminds me of the asylum where I was housed for 17 years. The short doors, the faded paint walls, and floor to ceiling shelves. It was from that wall my horrid little visitor came to me each night. A shelving track slid back and out came the old gent in a surgeons gown. He would talk with me for hours on end, disappearing only when my next round of meds was administered by staff. He told me that he had lived behind the wall for his entire life and that if I didn't get better I'd be joining him. Finally one night I managed to escape and have been free ever since.
And yet the "old gent" remained behind hoping someday you would return.
Two hungover men in a “closet” we need to see more of this type of humour😂
I love seeing them together! and this kind of free video just two friends exploring this convent... Phil, what a move the camera was 🤣
The mysterious object is an umbrella swift. You put a skein of yarn on it, opening the swift arms until the yarn is secure, then you wind the yarn into balls -probably for the nuns’ knitting.
Nightmare on the Convent Express
"I told myself I should stop drinking. But then I said don't listen to that guy, he's drunk."
If there is one concealed room there may others somewhere in the building.
You two do make me laugh even with a hangover 😂❤
You two guys are so funny you should start your own comedy team for Pub nights and call it “ Stories from the Convent “ LOL .Sending laughter and good times from Canada 🇨🇦
Billy is great. Nice of him to give a tour on a Sunday.
I hope he opens the place for public tours.
You found an umbrella swift, for yarn!
Billy, what do the local residents think when you ring that bell? Have they not complained?
He could always play innocent & blame it on ghosts
Ghosts lol😂
When I was a kid, I used to have to hold the skein of wool on my outstretched arms so my grandmother could wind the wool into balls. Wish I had a skein holder! 😂
Omg, Billy, you look & SOUND so much like your brother, Michael!
It is a normal yarn winding objekt. Easy to use and they have been in use in Sweden for hundreds of years.
A Sunday going through nuns drawers
That is an umbrella swift yarn winder. The yarn would be wrapped around the framework in the “open” position from the spindle then when collapse the umbrella, you pull the yarn of and twist it into a hank.
I love the fun you and Phil have Billy. Phil wasn’t keen on the secret/ hidden room and the top floor. The scratches on the door yikes! That was a bit creepy.
I just love when these two get together! Keep helping each other and going on adventures together ❤
Nice of Phil to be the cameraman today. A fun Sunday exploring👏🏻
You two are having so much fun when the woman are away . It’s a wool winder😊
Wool winder. Aka swift
Fantastic hearing you giggle at Billy's take over!!! LoL so great to see you guys having fun together.
Ha, ha, ha- that object is called an "umbrella swift" and as other's have said, it is for holding a skein of yarn while it is being wound into a ball. Maybe someone you know made you hold your hands up in the air holding a skien of yarn while they wound it into a ball, but the umbrella swift is much more efficient because it spins.
I loved when he rang the bells. Lol
Agree.... two hungover guys and one plays with the church bell!!!
It's always fun following you two around! Love the humour between you. Thanks for the creepy tour, I was bored and fixed that!
What you are thinking is an umbrella is actually a yarn swift. Used to wind a hank of yarn into a ball.
that's a skeiner. wrap a hank of yarn around the skeiner which spins so you can ball the yarn.
That thing you found is for one of two purposes. I is either an old fashioned dry rack for women's unmentionables that sticks in a sink or tub drain or it is to wind yarn on. I don't think it's the latter because the ones I have seen don't fold. In any case, is broken and will need to be repaired by someone knowledgeable. We enjoyed the tour - that second floor is spooky.
You two made me laugh out loud😂
love that bell x
You found a yarn swift. It is used to put skeins of yarn on so that it can be put into balls
Yep, umbrella swift from turning yarn hanks.
Although missing the bottom it is for winding yarn for knitting and from getting tangled up. Happy days such fun too, yes, I knit. Have a great day
I'm glad you and Billy are such good friends looks like ya'll had fun exploring the convents attic. There is no way I would wonder around the convent alone. Hugs, Kathy 🇺🇸
It's a yarn winder. That hallway looks like a filming location for "The Shining".
that wooden thingy is a YARN SWIFT . it does not open bigger than that . its an antique dont force it open more . you take a hank of wool open it up like a big circle put it around the swift and then you take the wool and wind it up by hand or with a yarn winder . The swift is supposed to be anchored to a table so it can spin as you wind . ( I own BOTH thats how I know )
for winding up yarn.. still very much used today. it is used because yarn is kept in hanks, and wound into cakes. when wound tension is placed on the yarn; typically one does not want to put tension on the yarn until the knitting will be done. think of it as having your hair twisted and pulled at all times, it will eventually break.
Always a good time when Philly and Billy are together😊
It’s a yarn swift. You put the hank ( or skein) of yarn on it and either use a ball winder or a nostepine, you wind the yarn into a cake or ball.
Love the Bell, Billy! Great addition to the convent! What do the locals think when it randomly is rung?? Phil seems to be living alone for quite a while now. it's good to hang out with a good friend!
It's called a skein winder. A Fiber artist spins the fiber into a yarn and puts the spun yarn on the skein Winder . The yarn is then removed from the Skein Winder and then washed and dried and then put to then end product. Weaving knitting etc.
I just rewatched this. If this was a place to hide a person and valuables, I would hide the most precious thing back behind that cabinet. It's such a tiny space, maybe just put a cell phone back behind the cabinet while rocking it forward to take a look.
All I cans say is that you both are a hoot together! It is fun to watch two friends exploring the grounds of the convent.
I see someone already explained that that weird, umbrella shaped object is a wool winder, also called an umbrella swift. People who spin their own yarn know about those things, amd they are still in use by hand crafters.
yup...a swift...very handy for unwinding skeins of wool!
keep a look out for more spinning stuff.
Yes. You found a Yarn Spinner to unwind wool for organizing and making yarn into a skein. Someone was interested in knitting
Obviously, already said.
🤡 *STOP SPAMMING* 🤡
Yarn swift for winding yarn
The thing your holding is used to wind skains of yarn.
That have been spun
I agree, that is a yarn swift. It holds a hank of yarn so that one can wind it into a ball or skein.
That contraption is I think, a loom for winding wool from skeins into a ball prior to knitting...
Yarn winder Billy. A really nice one…..
Great video 🎉 love seeing you and Billy together., i bet the laughs are non stop when you two are drinking 😂
I was waiting for that phone to ring and you two to run out squealing. That would have freaked me out again.😮 . Thanks guys, your fear made me smile. 😂😂x
It also reminds me of a form to wind your yarn onto it after you spin it off the spinner wrap it on that fold a couple of times and put your label around it and there is a skein of yarn. Fold it down to stick size to go on the shelf in the cupboard when you're not using it. That with a count for the diagonal sticks.
I am so envious.. I wish I could be exploring the convent's hidden places with you guys.
I hope they find more... like caches under floors
Hey Phil, so sorry about your hangover, but this was fun, I love it when we get to see all the hidden areas, be it the convent or any of the Chateau's. Go get a good night sleep, you will feel better tomorrow, I promise. Hi to Billy. Love from N.Y.
That “umbrella” you found is actually a swift - used for winding a skein of yarn into a ball.
It's a knitty knoddy, for winding yarn
When the wives are away the Big Boy Will play 😂😂😂😂
You both are so funny 😂😂😂A brilliant video see you both in your next ones 🤗👍🤗👍☕☕☕☕ for the hang over 🤗🤗
Love Sue❤❤❤🇬🇧❤❤❤
I just love how the final sign-off is a little bit blurry - a bit like Phil and Billy's heads!
Billy has a good cure for a hangover. It's called the haunted halls of the convent. LOL. Thank goodness my drinking days are done. Made for a funny video though.😂
I knew When Billy got Your into The Attic I knew he was going for The Bell.
🇨🇦 ✌ 🙏 👍 🇨🇦
You two are so comical together! Love it! Great tour!
Nice to see people are trying to save old buildings and homes in Europe. We just knock down the old and build new for the most part in the USA.
Yeah, it's for wrapping wool around
It’s a yarn winder. If you spin yarn in a spinning wheel you can make balls of yarn with the winder.
Not an umbrella - it’s called a swift, for winding a skein of yarn into a ball on a ball winder.
it is totally a yarn swift. made for winding yarn for knitting. looks like loads of us recognise it.
the umbrella thing is for skeining wool - "An Umbrella Swift"
That's a yarn swift - you put a hank of wool around it
It is a yarn swift. It expands to hold a skein of yarn while winding it into a ball or cake. Still used today.
I think there is a larger void space between the store room and the preist hole as the wall length between the two store rooms looks a lot longer. Plus how could you see light through a pitch black void. I think you should look for another false back either in that corner space or behind the large storage cupboard
INCORRECT… A yarn turn had far fewer spokes.
Billy…. That “UMBRELLA” is an indoor drying device for ladies unmentionables. The nuns probably used it to hang their black stockings/panties & other undies to dry in their bedrooms or other private areas. The shape is to obviously take up little room. Nuns would have been careful about concealing any sort of under clothing. I suspect they each had one for their rooms or at least enough to spread amongst themselves.
I would imagine there was a second piece. (Had a cousin who was a nun & she had one similar.)
That wooden thing looks like the device to wind skeins of wool/flax/fiber. You wind the 'ball' off a looped skein positioned around the edge--it opens like an umbrella to put the right tension on the skein to be wound.
10.12 : Yes, that is called a umbrella. When you have dyed yarn it is in strings, when you want to use the yarn you put the string on the outside and unfold, then the yarn is in a string around and you can easyly use it.
Watching this 5 months later, so you probably already know 🙂
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It's a swift to wind yarn on instead of having to have some one hold out their arms to hold the yarn while they roll it up. It turns as they roll it. Looks old. Look up Yarn Swift.
Knitter here: Yarn swift to hold a skein of yarn so you can wind it into a cake or ball.
I am glad the boys survived!! 🤣
Spooky rooms upstairs 😳
Love that you have such a good time, great friends.
Its a yarn swift, for winding yarn into hanks, or for winding hanks into balls to prepare for weaving or knitting. Its missing a clamp on the bottom to attach it to a table.
I still don't understand what light you saw through the cracks in the wood when you found the hidden room. It looks pretty dark in that space. Where is the light coming from?
the umbrella is called a swift, and it is for winding yarn as others have mentioned
That is a yarn swift. You can use it for winding and measuring yarn after you spin it. Or it can be used to hold a hank of yarn to help you while you’re making a yarn ball. I have two of them 😊
Obviously, already said.
🤡 *STOP SPAMMING* 🤡
The object you found is a yarn swift. For taking a skein of yarn and making it into a ball of yarn.