Shelter and clothing; a textbook of the household arts (1920)
Kinne, Helen, 1861-1917. [from old catalog], Cooley, Anna M. (Anna Maria), b. 1874, joint author · New York, The Macmillan company · leaf 130
ame in this set has large spools with a thick rovingand the last before spinning a much smaller spool with afiner roving. This reduction in size is accomplished by thebobbin and fly frames, which draw out the rovings asthey pass between rollers and put in a twist which makesthe attenuating… … 110 SHELTER AND CLOTHING for the spinning, which draws it out, twists it, and windsit on spools. This drawing out of the roving into yarnmakes it possible to obtain yarn of any degree of fine-ness. The spinning frames add the necessary twist to givethe strength required (see Fig. 45). Modern…
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