SPINNING

is the art of reducing the,| Gbres of silk, wool, cotton, or fax into,| fine threads of aniform size ready for the -| wearer. This was formerly accomplished iby hand. 3 Sites with sae ‘jand distaff, and afterwards the ‘|help of the spinning-wheel. With such | primitive sprees the spinner was ‘jable to pr ice Only. 5.} time, but the inventions of Arkwright and |}Crompton changed all this, and gare a | tremendous impetus to the various textile -¥ | [s. 285]