Mule spinners' cancer — or Mule spinners cancer was a cancer, an epithelioma of the scrotum. It was first reported in 1887 in a cotton mule spinner.[1] In 1926 a British Home Office committee strongly favoured the view that this form of cancer was caused by the… … Wikipedia
Niddy noddy — with a removable crossbar. A niddy noddy (plural niddy noddies [1]) is a tool used to make skeins from yarn. It consists of a central bar, with crossbars at each end, offset from each other by 90°. The central bar is generally carved to make it… … Wikipedia
Spinning mule — A pair of Condenser spinning mules. These have 741 spindles, being cut down from 133 feet (41 m) 1122 spindles they used to have up until the 24th Sept 1974, when they were retired from Elk Mill, Royton. The mule was built by Platt Brothers … Wikipedia
Spinning wheel — For the computer animation commonly found on the Internet, see Spinning wheel (animation). For the Blood, Sweat Tears song, see Spinning Wheel (song). Irish spinning wheel around 1900 Library of Congress collection A spinning wheel is a device… … Wikipedia
Cotton-spinning machinery — Cotton Manufacturing Processes (after Murray 1911) Bale Breaker Blowing Room … Wikipedia
Swift (textiles) — For other uses, see Swift (disambiguation) A swift is a tool used to hold a skein of yarn while it is being wound off. Swift. The Oxford English Dictionary . 2nd ed. 1989.] It has an adjustable diameter so that it can hold skeins of many sizes,… … Wikipedia
Noil — This article is about Noil. For NOIL (Nordre Oppdalen Idrettslag), see Nordre Oppdalen Idrettslag. Hand Dyed Silk Noil Noil is the short fiber left over from combing wool or spinning silk and used as a decorative additive for many spinning… … Wikipedia
Spindle (textiles) — Eve spinning, the spindle in her right hand: Hunterian Psalter, ca 1170 (Glasgow University Library) … Wikipedia
Combing — For the video visual defect artifact, see Interlace. Noble comber in Bradford Combing is a method for preparing carded fibre for spinning. It separates out the short fibres by means of a rotating ring of steel pins. The fibres in the top it… … Wikipedia
Distaff — Queen Berthe instructing girls to spin flax on spindles using distaffs, Albert Anker, 1888 … Wikipedia
