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1Spinning (textiles) — Spinning is an ancient textile art in which plant, animal or synthetic fibers are twisted together to form yarn (or thread, rope, or cable). For thousands of years, fiber was spun by hand using simple tools, the spindle and distaff. Only in the… …
2Spinning wheel — For the computer animation commonly found on the Internet, see Spinning wheel (animation). For the Blood, Sweat Tears song, see Spinning Wheel (song). Irish spinning wheel around 1900 Library of Congress collection A spinning wheel is a device… …
3Spinning mule — A pair of Condenser spinning mules. These have 741 spindles, being cut down from 133 feet (41 m) 1122 spindles they used to have up until the 24th Sept 1974, when they were retired from Elk Mill, Royton. The mule was built by Platt Brothers …
4spinning jenny — an early spinning machine having more than one spindle, enabling a person to spin a number of yarns simultaneously. [1775 85] * * * Early multiple spindle machine for spinning wool or cotton. The hand powered spinning jenny was patented by James… …
5spinning mill — machine for spinning threads, workshop for creating yarns …
6spinning jenny — spin′ning jen ny n. tex an early spinning machine having more than one spindle, enabling a person to spin a number of yarns simultaneously • Etymology: 1775–85 …
7spinning jenny — /spɪnɪŋ ˈdʒɛni/ (say spining jenee) noun an early spinning machine having more than one spindle, whereby one person could spin a number of yarns simultaneously …
8Dref Friction Spinning — Friction Spinning or Dref Spinning is a textile technology that allows very heavy count yarns and technical core wrapped yarns to be manufactured. These are most commonly used in mop yarns, flame retardants and high tech fancy yarns such as… …
9Short draw (spinning) — Short draw is the spinning technique used to create worsted yarns. It is spun from combed roving, sliver or wool top anything with the fibers all lined up parallel to the yarn. It is generally spun from long stapled fibers. Short draw spun yarns… …
10Open end spinning — or open end spinning is a technology for creating yarn without using a spindle. It was invented and developed in Czechoslovakia in Výzkumný ústav bavlnářský / Cotton Researching Institute in Ústí nad Orlicí in the year 1963. It is also known as… …
