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

This business he gave up about 1767 in order to devote himself to the construction of the spinning frame.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 5 "Arculf" to "Armour, Philip" by Various

Yarn.—Yarn may be dyed either in the hank, in the warp or in the cop, i.e. in the form in which the yarn leaves the spinning frame.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 8 "Dubner" to "Dyeing" by Various

Warping The yarn coming from the spinning frame is sometimes dyed before weaving.

From Textiles and Clothing by Watson, Kate Heintz

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 Addams, Jane