This is an example of the spinning frame patented by Richard Arkwright in 1768. Also known as a water frame, it was the first textile machine designed to be powered by water. Arkwright set up the ...

Before the Industrial Revolution, making textiles was a slow process carried out by people using simple equipment, mostly in their own homes. By the end of the Industrial Revolution, the production of ...

Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. The Smithsonian's first label for Slater's Spinning Frame was written by textiles curator Frederick L. Lewton in 1912 ...

­When making clothes before the 19th century, one important tool was the spinning wheel. The spinning wheel helped improve the task of turning fabric into thread that, again, would be used to make ...

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IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Model of a section of a ring spinning ...

THE wheel is considered one of our greatest and most life changing inventions, and the story of its creation belongs to many cultures across the world. Wheels are used for transport, spinning thread, ...

The Central Board of Revenue (CBR) has decided not to collect Iqra surcharge on the import of "ring spinning frames" by the textile industry under SRO 1076 (I)/95. In this regard, the CBR has issued ...