The wooden spinning wheel is a copy of an C18th wheel. This would have been used to spin woollen yarn. The spinning wheel was replaced by machinery - firstly the Spinning Jenny and then the ...

The spinning was tedious; not only did it take time for the spinning wheel to travel the mile between the two shores, but the work had to be performed in a precise sequence, in order to create the ...

It’s similar to how a modern spinning wheel works, just more primitive and portable. The research team, led by Talia Yashuv and Leore Grosman from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, used ...