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The Spinner by William-Adolphe Bouguereau shows a woman hand-spinning using a drop spindle. Fibers to be spun are bound to a distaff held in her left hand.
Spinning is an ancient textile art in which plant, animal or synthetic fibres are drawn out and twisted together to form yarn. For thousands of years, fibre was spun by hand using simple tools, the spindle and distaff. It was only with the invention of the spinning wheel in the Islamic world circa 1030, and its subsequent introduction to China, India and Europe in the High Middle Ages, that the output of individual spinners dramatically increased. Mass production later arose in the 18th century with the beginnings of the Industrial Revolution. Hand-spinning remains a popular handicraft.
Characteristics of spun yarn vary according to the material used, fibre length and alignment, quantity of fibre used, and degree of twist.
of years, fibre was spun by hand using simple tools, the spindle and distaff. It was only with the invention of the spinning wheel in the Islamic world...
A spinning wheel is a device for spinning thread or yarn from fibres. It was fundamental to the cotton textile industry prior to the Industrial Revolution...
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top stays upright while spinning. Spinning plates are sometimes gimmicked, to help keep the plates on the poles. Plate spinning has existed since at least...
sourced for them as the textile industry did not exist in India, and handspinning was a dying art. During Victorian era (1837–1901), 47 mills existed...
with the right hand used in drawing the fibres from it. This version is the older of the two, as spindle spinning predates spinning on a wheel. A distaff...
women who spun wool. According to the Online Etymological Dictionary, spinning was "commonly done by unmarried women, hence the word came to denote" an...
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pen spinning pioneer in Japan and is recognized with creating the first pen spinning website, released on December 1, 1997. Kondoh began pen spinning in...
and the aerodynamic effects of the spinning ball to cause the ball to dip and drift before bouncing and spinning or "turning", sharply. Leg spinners...
as the spinning wait cursor, but it is also known by other names. These include, but are not limited to the spinning beach ball, the spinning wheel of...
The spinning frame is an Industrial Revolution invention for spinning thread or yarn from fibres such as wool or cotton in a mechanized way. It was developed...
backstraps looms with a rigid heddle, and very portable. There exist very small hand-held looms known as darning looms. They are made to fit under the fabric...
The spinning mule is a machine used to spin cotton and other fibres. They were used extensively from the late 18th to the early 20th century in the mills...
of how the coordinates arrived at their final configuration. Spinors, on the other hand, are constructed in such a way that makes them sensitive to how...
references to cotton spinning do not identify a wheel, but more likely refer to handspinning. The earliest unambiguous reference to a spinning wheel in India...
plays domestically for Western Australia and the Perth Scorchers. A left-handedspin bowler, he played two Test matches for the Australian national side during...
Retrieved 20 November 2013. "The Joy of Handspinning – Handspinning wool into yarn with a spinning wheel or drop spindle » How to Care For Your Angora Rabbit"...
Hettinger, "Spinning toy", published 1997-01-07, issued 1997-01-07 US 9914063B1, Michael Scott McCoskery, "Toy designed to spin in a user's hand", issued...
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