Exploring historic textiles, sustainable fashion, and the fiber arts through spinning, weaving, sewing, and yarn crafting.

Demonstration of spinning yarn using two different spindles: top whorl and Turkish style drop spindles.

The spinning jenny was invented by a weaver named James Hargreaves, of Lancashire, England, circa 1764. His original model was a frame with eight vertical spindles in a row and two horizontal ...

Now, however, they’ve come to a much more significant conclusion: The pebbles could be spindle whorls, weighted pieces used in spinning textiles. If that interpretation is true, it would make ...

Twelve-thousand years ago, people in a coastal village in the Levant used stone weights on their spindles to spin thread faster and more evenly—and, some archeologists are arguing, in the ...

Eventually, weighted discs known as whorls were added onto spindles to create drop spindles; whorls help the spinner use inertia to spin yarn faster. During the hand-spinning workshops, led by ...

Since 1972, archaeologists have uncovered 113 of these punctured artifacts at the Nahal Ein Gev II site, which may have been used for spinning threads. Spindle whorls are round, weighted objects ...

Learn how to turn wool roving into yarn! In this beginner workshop, participants will learn the park and draft method of spinning on a drop spindle and create their first skein of yarn.

CARTAGO, Costa Rica, Oct. 14, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Global Sae-A Group, the holding company of Sae-A Trading, one of the world's largest apparel manufacturer, held an opening ceremony for its third ...