thousands of years, fibre was spun by hand using simple tools, the spindle and distaff. After the introduction of the spinning wheel in the 13th century, the...

by hand using a spindle whorl, starting in the 500s AD the spinning wheel became the predominant spinning tool across Asia and Europe. The spinning jenny...

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...

called spinning, a form of exercise Spinning (cycling), an indoor cycling brand Spinning (motorsport), a South African motorsport Figure skating spins, a...

The spinning jenny is a multi-spindle spinning frame, and was one of the key developments in the industrialisation of textile manufacturing during the...

Metal spinning, also known as spin forming or spinning or metal turning most commonly, is a metalworking process by which a disc or tube of metal is rotated...

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...

industrial yarn production, spindles are used as well; see spinning jenny, spinning mule and ring spinning. The wood traditionally favoured for making spindles...

than the players choosing their teams Drafting, a hand spinning method of preparing fibers for spinning into yarn Drafting dog, a dog drawing a cart Draft...

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...

as Cyclosa turbinata, whose name comes from the Latin roots for spinning top. Spinning tops emerged independently in various cultures worldwide and are...

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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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...

of test pilots during certification spin-testing of light airplanes. Inverted spinning and erect or upright spinning are dynamically very similar and require...

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...

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...

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...

Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Home spun literally refers to hand spinning, see spinning (textiles). Homespun may refer to: Homespun fabric, especially...

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 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...

13th century. Until the 1740s all spinning was done by hand using a spinning wheel. The state of the art spinning wheel in England was known as the Jersey...

clothing made of jute. The weavers used simple hand-spinning wheels and hand looms, which they also used to spin cotton yarns. History also suggests that Indians...

references to cotton spinning do not identify a wheel, but more likely refer to hand spinning. The earliest unambiguous reference to a spinning wheel in India...

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...

direction of spin to the cricket ball. The other spinning technique, usually used to spin the ball in the opposite direction, is finger spin. Wrist spin is bowled...

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sourced for them as the textile industry did not exist in India, and hand spinning was a dying art. During Victorian era (1837–1901), 47 mills existed...

(anti-clockwise) while spinning predominantly in the other. Very few skaters have such an ability to perform jumps and spins in both directions, and...

com/18c/winding.html), Retrieved 8-3-2011. Chadwick, Eileen, The Craft of Hand Spinning, pp.78-80, 156-7, Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, NY, 1980. Pop Goes...