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
Flag of India
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The national flag of India, colloquially called Tiraṅgā, is a horizontal rectangular tricolour flag, the colours being of India saffron, white and India green; with the Ashoka Chakra, a 24-spoke wheel
Spinning wheel
…self-sufficiency and independence, and therefore used the charkha as a symbol of the Indian independence movement and included it on earlier versions of the Flag of India. The great wheel was one of the earlier types of spinning wheel. The fibre is held in the left hand and the wheel slowly turned with the right. Yarn…
A reproduction of Gandhi's flag, introduced at the Congress meeting in 1921
Indian Flag, the first stamp of independent India, released on 21 November 1947, was meant for foreign correspondence.
Flag of India, New Delhi
The flag of India showcases three colours in a horizontal fashion: saffron, white and green with an Ashoka Chakra in the middle.