These artifacts help us better understand the importance of craft production, especially weaving, in the rural economies of the Iron Age. Alongside the weights, a wooden spindle was found, a crucial ...

Boulder's Schacht Spindle Co. is celebrating its 50th anniversary Friday ... The company at 5:30 p.m. also will honor many individuals who have helped educate people about spinning and weaving.

Eventually, weighted discs known as whorls were added onto spindles to create drop spindles; whorls help the spinner use inertia to spin yarn faster. During the hand-spinning workshops, led by ...

Twelve-thousand years ago, people in a coastal village in the Levant used stone weights on their spindles to spin thread faster and more evenly—and, some archeologists are arguing, in the ...

We’re here weaving,” says Cristina Nicotra. ... She has a drop spindle in her lap, spinning yarn from a lump of black wool for her Brigid tapestry, of a sheep.

Pasupati Spinning & Weaving Mills Limited (PSWML), established in 1979, manufactures Synthetic Blended Yarn/Cotton Yarn and Polyster Viscose with installed capacities of 26000 spindles and 25000 ...