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Archaeologists in Norway have unearthed the Viking burial of a high-status woman who was buried with her dog in a boat, ...

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 ...

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 ...