The Wolcott Mill Fiber Fair took wool from sheep to yarn and demonstrated various crafts that can be made with yarn.

It is well known that woolen rovings in their untwisted state, cannot, at present, be used for weaving, knitting, c, but have previously to go through what may be called a spinning process ...

Making a natural fiber like wool into something useful like a sweater involves a lot of steps. We might be familiar with shearing the sheep, spinning the wool into yarn, or knitting and weaving ...

The wooden spinning wheel is a copy of an C18th wheel. This would have been used to spin woollen yarn. The spinning wheel was replaced by machinery - firstly the Spinning Jenny and then the ...

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This machine was made at the loomshop of the Rhodes family of Diggle near Saddleworth, and was used at Helmshore Textile Mill for spinning wool until 1916. The Spinning Jenny was invented in 1764 ...

March is a month that I sometimes struggle with. The weather is starting to warm up, then a cold snap comes through. It is a ...

This machine was made at the loomshop of the Rhodes family of Diggle near Saddleworth, and was used at Helmshore Textile Mill for spinning wool until 1916. The Spinning Jenny was invented in 1764 ...