Sewing and textiles; a textbook for grades and rural schools, prepared in the Extension division of the University of Wisconsin (1918)
Turner, Annabell · New York, Chicago [etc.] D. Appleton and company · leaf 43
STUDY OF COTTON MATERIALS 29 fasten together the skins which they used as clothing. Perhaps wool torn from the sheep in passing by bushes and brambles may have sug- gested it to them. Until 1500 A. D. all spinning was done by … Courtesy of Marshall Field Co, Girl Spinning hand and a spindle, which was at first merely a stick upon which the thread was wound. Later it was discovered that the spindle could be whirled around faster if it had a weight on the end, so a piece of wood was a\;tached to the lower end. This was…
Sewing · Textile fabrics
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