spinning frame
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Mauney had seen the Japanese spinning equipment at a textile show and tested a Japanese spinning frame for three months, then bought 9.000 spindles for $500,000.
From Time Magazine Archive
Warping The yarn coming from the spinning frame is sometimes dyed before weaving.
From Textiles and Clothing by Kate Heintz Watson
Although he was not a craftsman of any sort, he patented in 1769 a spinning frame worked by water power and erected the first practical cotton mill factory.
From Our Legal Heritage : 600-1776 King Aethelbert - King George III by S. A. Reilly
They knew how to use the spindles and were delighted to find the Russian spinning frame.
From Twenty Years at Hull House; with autobiographical notes by Jane Addams
"I've seen a very good-looking young man by the name of Raymond Ironsyde wasting a deuce of a lot of his time by your spinning frame; and wasting your time, too."
From The Spinners by Eden Phillpotts
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