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15 Facts About Spinning wheel

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Spinning wheel is a device for spinning thread or yarn from fibres.

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Spinning wheel spread from the Islamic world to Europe by the 13th century, with the earliest European illustration dated to around 1280.

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Spinning wheel replaced the earlier method of hand spinning with a spindle.

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The great Spinning wheel is an example of this type, where the fibre is held in the left hand and the Spinning wheel slowly turned with the right.

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The decline of the automatic spinning wheel in China is an important part of Elvin's high level equilibrium trap theory to explain why there was no indigenous industrial Revolution in China despite its high levels of wealth and scientific knowledge.

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The great wheel is usually used to spin short-staple fibres, and can only be used with fibre preparations that are suited to long-draw spinning.

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The large drive Spinning wheel turns the much smaller spindle assembly, with the spindle revolving many times for each turn of the drive Spinning wheel.

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Double drive wheel is named after its drive band, which goes around the spinning wheel twice.

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Single drive Spinning wheel has one drive band that the flySpinning wheel and the flyer, and a short tension band which goes only over the bobbin.

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An Irish castle Spinning wheel is a type of upright in which the flyer is located below the drive Spinning wheel.

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Spinning wheel increased the productivity of thread making by a factor of greater than 10.

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Spinning wheel was a precursor to the spinning jenny, which was widely used during the Industrial Revolution.

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Ubiquity of the spinning wheel has led to its inclusion in the art, literature and other expressions of numerous cultures around the world, and in the case of South Asia it has become a powerful political symbol.

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Spinning wheel chose the traditional loincloth as a rejection of Western culture and a symbolic identification with the poor of India.

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Golden Spinning Wheel is a Czech poem by Karel Jaromir Erben that was included in his classic collection of folk ballads, Kytice.

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