Yarn and cloth making; an economic study; a college and normal schools text preliminary to fabric study, and a reference for teachers of industrial history and art in secondary and elementary schools (1918)
Kissell, Mary Lois · New York, The Macmillian company · leaf 85
y: a spinning wheel with auto-matic-winding spindle rotated by foot. A distaffmay be attached or separate. No attenuating device : both hands draft. Twisting device : a spindle with flyer and independentlymoving bobbin. First automatic winding device: the spindle-bobbin. First continuous spinning :… … Reproduced by permission from Hoopers Hand LoomWeaving, Macmlllan, U.S.A., and John Hogg, London. Fig. 12. — Spinning Cotton on Saxony Wheel This treadle wheel, worked by foot power, frees both hands to draft therove or carding of cotton. The spindle simultaneously twists andwinds. SPINNING TYPES 45
Textile industry · Spinning · Weaving
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