Spinning

Chapter 5.

The Invention of Spinning Machines.

The Jenny, the Water Frame, and the Mule.

While men were working on inventions to provide power to drive machines and to furnish easy means of transportation and travel, others were working on inventions to be used on the farm, in the factory, and the home, in the production and manufacture of articles of food, clothing, and shelter.

One spinner could now spin as much yarn as half a dozen had done before.

The yarn was more even and better twisted.

Spinning wheels were to be found in most homes until about 1840, and many are to be seen there now preserved as curiosities.

The mother always spun enough cotton and wool to supply the family with lindsay woolsey for clothes and with yarns for socks.