250 years of spinning history ends at New Lanark World Heritage Site
For visitors to New Lanark UNESCO World Heritage Site, seeing the mill buildings, counting house and hydro-powered 19th century spinning ...
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12,000-year-old stones could reveal roots of wheel technology, study suggests
Archaeologists may have uncovered one of the earliest examples of rotational tools, a discovery that could shed light on the ...
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Brown County Historical Society holds wool spinning program
MANKATO, Minn. (KEYC) - This past Saturday August 31, the Brown County Historical Society hosted a wool spinning program at ...
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Improved Spinning Jenny
This machine was made at the loomshop of the Rhodes family of Diggle near Saddleworth, and was used at Helmshore Textile Mill for spinning wool until 1916. The Spinning Jenny was invented in 1764 ...
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Hand-Made Drum Carder Gets Wool Ready For Spinning
Making a natural fiber like wool into something useful like a sweater involves a lot of steps. We might be familiar with shearing the sheep, spinning the wool into yarn, or knitting and weaving ...