The wooden spinning wheel is a copy of an C18th wheel. This would have been used to spin woollen yarn. The spinning wheel was replaced by machinery - firstly the Spinning Jenny and then the ...

Maui is home to many farms and farm animals — even alpacas. Located in the island’s Upcountry area is one such farm known as ...

Yarn spinning is a crucial process in textile manufacturing, where fibers are twisted together to form yarn. The dynamics of this process, particularly how fibers are arranged and manipulated ...

This might sound like we're spinning you a yarn but this week's Everyday Artist ... My husband bought me my wheel about two years ago, with some redundancy money. They can cost hundreds, but ...

From there you’ll want to move on to spinning the wool into yarn, which you can do with either a wheel or an electric motor.

This project explores the functional/aesthetic possibilities of e-textiles that emerge from hand-spinning custom e-textile materials. The yarns and swatches we have created look to demonstrate a ...

An engraving showing how yarn spinning wheels were used in the home before the Industrial Revolution. Under this system, local textile manufacturers would have deals with individual families.