Well-cared for and "happy" sheep make the best wool, yarn experts who use rare-breeds have said. Becci and Markus Pamely-Bast ...

A 12,000-year-old tool used to spin fibers into yarn has been identified in an archaeological dig in northern Israel, ...

Israeli archeologists use models based on their find to spin flax into yarn, indicating these pebbles were used as a version ...

Early human cultures likely used stones as spindle whorls to spin fibers into yarn. A collection of perforated pebbles discovered at an archaeological site in Israel may be spindle whorls, marking a ...

Over 100 small stone objects from Neolithic period are the earliest instance of 'spindle whorls,' used to spin fibers into ...

Researchers in Israel suggest the roughly donut-shaped artifacts could be spindle whorls, representing one of the oldest ...

After testing out replicas of the ancient devices, the authors of a new study suggest that they were functional spindle ...

Spindle whorls, round, weighted objects that are attached to a spindle stick, form a similar wheel-and-axle-like device to ...

A collection of perforated pebbles from an archaeological site in Israel may be spindle whorls, representing a key milestone in the development of rotational tools including wheels, according to a new ...

The stones studied by the team predate the cart wheels of the Bronze Age by thousands of years, highlighting a key milestone ...

Into the magnificent 19th century Platt spinning mules went raw wool. As the twisting and winding machines worked their magic, out the other end came fine yarn, some destined for the grandest fashion ...

Into the magnificent 19th century Platt spinning mules went raw wool. As the twisting and winding machines worked their magic, out the other end came fine yarn, some destined for the grandest ...