The textile industries : a practical guide to fibres, yarns & fabrics in every branch of textile manufacture, including preparation of fibres, spinning, doubling, designing, weaving, bleaching, printing, dyeing and finishing (1910)
Murphy, William S · London : The Gresham Publishing Company · leaf 169
upon it. In course of time the spindle was made longerand slenderer, to spin a finerand longer thread, and tocounterbalance the lack ofproportionate weight a lumpof clay or block of lead, orother heavy substance wasfixed on the end of thespindle. Designed at first merely to give steadiness and… … Fig- 95-—The Spindle revolving andtwisting the Wool A, Distaff, put through the Waistbelt.
Textile industry · Textile fabrics
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