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    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...
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  • 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...
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    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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  • called spinning, a form of exercise Spinning (cycling), an indoor cycling brand Spinning (motorsport), a South African motorsport Figure skating spins, a...
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    The spinning jenny is a multi-spindle spinning frame, and was one of the key developments in the industrialisation of textile manufacturing during the...
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    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...
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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...
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    Spindle (textiles) (category Hand spinning tools)
    industrial yarn production, spindles are used as well; see spinning jenny, spinning mule and ring spinning. The wood traditionally favoured for making spindles...
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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...
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  • 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...
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    Carding (category Spinning)
    needed] Cotton mill Cotton-spinning machinery Doubling (textiles) DREF friction spinning Gig-mill Open end spinning Spinning Spinning wheel Textile manufacture...
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    Distaff (category Hand spinning tools)
    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...
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    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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    as Cyclosa turbinata, whose name comes from the Latin roots for spinning top. Spinning tops emerged independently in various cultures worldwide and are...
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    Loom (redirect from Spinning machines)
    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...
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    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...
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    of test pilots during certification spin-testing of light airplanes. Inverted spinning and erect or upright spinning are dynamically very similar and require...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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  • Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Home spun literally refers to hand spinning, see spinning (textiles). Homespun may refer to: Homespun fabric, especially...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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  • 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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    Retrieved 20 November 2013. "The Joy of Handspinning – Hand spinning wool into yarn with a spinning wheel or drop spindle » How to Care For Your Angora Rabbit"...
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  • "Spinning Around" has been performed by Minogue during all of her tours, with the exception of the Anti Tour. In 2003, Q magazine ranked "Spinning Around"...
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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...
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  • left-handed, shoots with his left hand but has been known to dunk with his right hand, spin clockwise in his 360 dunks, and shoot right handed hook shots...
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