In improving cotton weaving machinery, she converted the traditional spinning wheel into a new three-spindle cotton spinning frame which brought about a marked rise in the production of cotton yarn.

Raw materials, such as wool, flax and cotton, would be spun into yarn using a spinning wheel and woven into lengths of fabric on a hand loom – all done by hand. Once finished, weavers would be ...

Cromford Mills in Derbyshire - built in 1771 by Sir Richard Arkwright - was the world's first successful water-powered cotton spinning mill ... A new water wheel has been installed at the Unesco ...

Deriving its name from charkh, a Persian word meaning ‘wheel’ or ‘circle’, the charkha is a hand-driven spinning wheel used ...

Obeying the tradition, some 500 students filed into the auditorium carrying boxes with portable spinning wheels. Sitting cross-legged, they took out tufts of cotton and began spinning, their arms ...

A person who spins needs two things, in addition to time: the raw material (wool, flax, cotton) that is to be spun ... are attached to stools on which the spinsters sit, or to the spinning wheels ...

The wood or cotton pulp is treated with ... threads are dropped over a bobbin or pulley wheel into a small hole in the top of a rapidly revolving spinning box. This box turns at some 1,500 ...

This exhibit tells the story of the Acadian tradition of spinning ... wheel, woven place mats created through the project, hand embroidered baptismal gowns, hand carders and brown cotton.

Loro Piana is narrating its history through 36 windows and two pop-ups at Harrods that feature goats floating on cashmere ...

The colored lights are spinning at the North Florida Fair ... Roller coasters and pig races, Ferris wheels and cotton candy, ...