History of the cotton manufacture in Great Britain : with a notice of its early history in the East, and in all the quarters of the globe : a description of the great mechanical inventions, which have caused its unexampled extension in Britain, and a view of the present state of the manufacture and the condition of the classes engaged in its several departments (1835)
Baines, Edward, Sir, 1800-1890 · London : H. Fisher, R. Fisher, and P. Jackson · leaf 89
68 THE HISTORY OF The cotton being thus prepared, without any carding,it is spun by the women; the coarse yarn is spun on aheavy one-thread wheel, of teak-wood, and of the rudestcarpentry— … The finer yarn is spun with a metallic spindle, some-times with and sometimes without a distaff; a bit of clayis attached as a weight to one end of the spindle, whichis turned round with the left hand, whilst the cotton issupplied with the right; the thread is wound up on asmall piece of wood. The…
Cotton manufacture
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