Spinning wheels are used by knitters to turn raw sheep’s wool into yarn. He went through several iterations before arriving at a good design. Besides the motor, there are two major components to ...

Saxony wheels were used for flax, wool or cotton. In conjunction with a group of weavers, an elaborate spinning room was able to produce various fibers. Before the wheel, however, a simple spindle ...

Re-imagining the Wheel Due to their size and the presence of whorls, the pebbles were likely used as an early version of a spinning wheel to gather up fibers like wool or flax and transform it into ...

The spinning wheel helped improve the task of turning fabric into thread that, again, would be used to make clothes. Before you start operating a spinning wheel, you have to first prepare the ...