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Spinning is the art of drawing out and
twisting fibres (originally wool or flax)
into a long thread, or yarn, by hand or
machine. Synthetic fibres are extruded as a
liquid through the holes of a spinneret.
Spinning was originally done by hand, then
with the spinning wheel, and in about 1767 in
England James Hargreaves built the spinning
jenny, a machine that could spin 8, then 16
bobbins at once.
Subject by: Vince Pike