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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...

the joke as a whole playing upon humans' search for meaning. The nature of their delivery is reflected in the English idiom spin a yarn, by way of analogy...

elementary particles Spin quantum number, a number which defines the value of a particle's spin Spinning (textiles), the creation of yarn or thread by twisting...

sometimes referred to as "spinning," but most people equate spinning with spun yarn production. T-shirt yarn is a recycled yarn made from the same fabric...

Spinning is an ancient textile art in which plant, animal or synthetic fibres are drawn out and twisted together to form yarn. For thousands of years...

announced that Luke Mitchell would join the series in a recurring role with the potential to be expanded to a series regular. It was announced on March 8, 2024...

Worsted (/ˈwɜːrstɪd/ or /ˈwʊstɪd/) is a high-quality type of wool yarn, the fabric made from this yarn, and a yarn weight category. The name derives from...

mixed fibers dyed before yarn spinning. Melange yarns yield economical blended textile materials. Marl or Marled yarn is a plied yarn. The doubling process...

used to spin woollen yarns from noble fibres such as cashmere, ultra-fine merino and alpaca for the knitted textile market. The spinning mule spins textile...

textiles, the first requirement is a source of fibre from which a yarn can be made, primarily by spinning. The yarn is processed by knitting or weaving...

A spindle is a straight spike, usually made from wood, used for spinning, twisting fibers such as wool, flax, hemp, cotton into yarn. It is often weighted...

When the loop and the yarn are nearly fully plied together, a new loop of yarn is pulled through the initial loop, and spinning continues. This process...

Spinning is a twisting technique to form yarn from fibers. The fiber intended is drawn out, twisted, and wound onto a bobbin. A few popular fibers that...

shuttle (John Kay 1733) had increased yarn demand by the weavers by doubling their productivity, and now the spinning jenny could supply that demand by increasing...

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-spinning machinery is machines which process (or spin) prepared cotton roving into workable yarn or thread. Such machinery can be dated back centuries...

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...

Paper yarn is the yarn made from paper strips chiefly with wood pulp cut into strips and then twisted to form a yarn. Germany invented Paper yarn in the...

Ring spinning is a spindle-based method of spinning fibres, such as cotton, flax or wool, to make a yarn. The ring frame developed from the throstle frame...

This step is a detangler, prior to carding and spinning into yarn. At this stage, the dried, finished fibers are in a form called tow, a large, untwisted...