The useful arts and manufactures of Great Britain (1861)
Tomlinson, Charles, 1808-1897, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (Great Britain). Committee of General Literature and Education · London : Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge · leaf 43
31 THE MANUFACTURE OF COTTON YARN. extended from the spindles to the fluted wooden clasp, this was closed with the left hand, and then drawn along the horizontal frame to a considerable distance from the spindles, the spinner at the same time with his right hand turning a fly wheel, which caused… … HARGREAVES'S SPINJtING JENNT. spun into yarn. The threads were then thrown off the points of the spindles by a slight backward motion ; and, being pressed down by a " faller," the yarn was then wound upon the spindles (the quantity wound upon each spindle being termed a "cop"). On the clasp being…
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