urope abouta hundred years before the days of Co-lumbus, spinners began to use a wheel. Carding As soon as spinning began, the womanbegan to prepare the little threads orfibres by loosening them, when they werewadded together, and by laying themstraight. This led to carding (Fig. 11,Fig. 12). The… … Fig. 11. Carding. pace with improvements in spinning, sincethe spinning depends on the carding. Improvements in SpinningTo use the great or Jersey wheel (Fig. 13),the worker held the roll of carded fibre on adistafT, or placed it in a pile close to thewheel. She fastened one end of this roll tothe…
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