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  2. Lazy Kate - Wikipedia

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    A kate with three bobbins on it. A lazy kate (also simply known as a kate) is a device used in spinning to hold one or more spools or bobbins in place while the yarn on them is wound off from the side of the bobbin. [1] Typically, a kate consists of a standing rack with multiple rods which allow the bobbins placed on them to spin.

  3. Spinning wheel - Wikipedia

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    The spinning wheel spread from the Middle-East to Europe by the 13th century, with the earliest European illustration dated to around 1280. In France, the spindle and distaff were not displaced until the mid 18th century. [15] [16] The spinning wheel replaced the earlier method of hand spinning with a spindle. The first stage in mechanizing the ...

  4. Niddy-noddy - Wikipedia

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    Manufactured niddy-noddies can be made of different sizes, producing skeins from 12 inches in length to 4 feet in length. The most common size, however, produces a two-yard skein. [3] Very small niddy-noddies are generally used for small samples. Many spinners will spin a sample length of yarn, ply it, and skein it using a niddy-noddy before ...

  5. Spinning frame - Wikipedia

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    In 1760 England, yarn production from wool, flax and cotton was still a cottage industry in which fibres were carded and spun by hand using a spinning wheel.As the textile industry expanded its markets and adopted faster machines, yarn supplies became scarce especially due to innovations such as the doubling of the loom speed after the invention of the flying shuttle.

  6. Cotton-spinning machinery - Wikipedia

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    Until the 1740s all spinning was done by hand using a spinning wheel. The state of the art spinning wheel in England was known as the Jersey wheel however an alternative wheel, the Saxony wheel was a double band treadle spinning wheel where the spindle rotated faster than the traveller in a ratio of 8:6, drawing on both was done by the spinners ...

  7. Spinning (textiles) - Wikipedia

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    Spinning is a twisting technique to form yarn from fibers.The fiber intended is drawn out, twisted, and wound onto a bobbin.A few popular fibers that are spun into yarn other than cotton, which is the most popular, are viscose (the most common form of rayon), animal fibers such as wool, and synthetic polyester. [1]

  8. Spindle (textiles) - Wikipedia

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    Suspended spindles also permit the spinner to move around while spinning, going about their day. [8] However, there are practical limits to their size/weight. Most supported spindles continue to rest with the tip on one's thigh, on the ground, on a table, or in a small bowl while rotating.

  9. Doffer - Wikipedia

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    Doffer boys in Aragon Mills, Rock Hill, South Carolina, photographed by Lewis Hine on 13 May 1912 A doffer is someone who removes "doffs" (bobbins, pirns or spindles) holding spun fiber such as cotton or wool from a spinning frame and replaces them with empty ones.

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