Exploring historic textiles, sustainable fashion, and the fiber arts through spinning, weaving, sewing, and yarn crafting.

The find is the oldest known evidence of a newfangled textile production technology called the drop spindle. But it may also have been a distant precursor to the wheel. According to archaeologists ...

Construction is well underway at the Xinjiang Runze Textile Co., Ltd.'s (hereinafter referred to as "Xinjiang Runze Textile") new intelligent 100,000-spindle compact spinning project, with 20% of the ...

By 1912, just a decade later, it had expanded to boast 112,000 spindles and 4,700 looms, making it the largest textile mill under one roof in the country. More than 2,400 mill workers and their ...

The roughly 100 spindle whorls are pebbles with holes that allow a stick to be inserted to make it easier to spin textiles using flax or wool, according to the study, which was published Wednesday ...

Textile workers in the Industrial Revolution ... His original model was a frame with eight vertical spindles in a row and two horizontal wooden bars that held the other ends of the rovings ...