Spinning (textiles)
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Spinning is a twisting technique to form yarn from fibers. The fiber intended is drawn out, twisted, and wound onto a bobbin. A few popular fibers that are spun into yarn other than cotton, which is t
George Walker, 1814
Traditional spinner in her family's house in Old Bagan, Myanmar (2019).
Ring spinning
Mule spinning
Spinning wheel
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A spinning wheel is a device for spinning thread or yarn from fibres. It was fundamental to the textile industry prior to the Industrial Revolution. It laid the foundations for later machinery such as
An elderly Irish woman with a spinning wheel
Hindoo Spinning-Wheel (1852)
Scene from Al-Maqamat, painted by al-Wasiti (1237)
Spinning wheel depicted in the Smithfield Decretals, between 1300 and 1340