Thursday, June 29, 2006

This is a Spinning Jenny




It's a bit like a spinning wheel with several strands. I wasn't very good when invented. You should look it up. It has an interesting story behind it. Well, I thought so. There was a fear of change, loss of jobs, this whole drama thing attached to it. Interesting.

James Hargreaves

The Cotton Times has some information

3 comments:

Kevin Knox said...

Well, that would explain why it stumped me!

I have used a spinning wheel and a loom - rigid and soft heddle both, but I still don't know exactly what this monstrosity does. :-)

Very cool.

Milly said...
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