helped transform plant or animal fibers into thread through spinning. It’s similar to how a modern spinning wheel works, just more primitive and portable. The research team, led by Talia Yashuv ...

A fixture within the anchorages called a strand shoe was used to secure the "dead wire" while a spinning wheel, or sheave, pulled a "live wire" across the bridge. Once it reached the opposite ...

These tools were used to spin thread from the Iron Age and into the 17 century when the spinning wheel became more common. The whorl from Tønsberg, made from red sandstone, has a flat base and ...