The aim of this paper is to outline the economic asset of the female labour in different Gypsy socio-professional groups. Since there are no diachronic demographic databases available for this Romanian region, the reconstruction of life course is unlikely for Gypsy females. Nevertheless, the demographic analysis of the 1838 register and of other synchronic archival sources, may unravel patterns of work-life unknown before in European historic population. Thus, in contrast with the surrounding female population, the Gypsy women displayed a greater variety of employability, raking from domestic service in the aristocratic urban villas and rural estates, to traditional Gypsy occupations in metallurgy and woodworking. In the addition to the traditional wool spinning, the Gypsy women are seen as precisely spindle makers which changes the millenary European female employment pattern from “lanam fecit” to “fusum fecit”.