Show CRUDE METHODS OP OF SPINNING which were long in displacing tho the spindle and distaff the invention of the art of spinning was ascribed by the ancients to ml corva the goddess of wisdom says a 3 writer in the housekeeper tho the date 1500 D C Is given is as that of tho the beginning of the art in greece under tho the direction of the king icing of arcadia out pictured inscriptions on egyptian monuments show that the use of the spindle and distaff was known lc it that country much earlier the first distaff was simply a stick around which the fiber to bo be spun was loosely colled coiled held in the left hand the sp spindle Irdle was waa a sort of top set bet in motion bv a twirl of the hand the fiber passi passing fig between the finger and thumb of tie cie right hand this invention was improved upon in the course of time bv placing the spindle in a frame and making it revolve by mechanical action of the tha hand or foot in connection with a chool or treadle thus giving tho the true spinning wheel tho the first recorded use of this was waa in ili tho the enry early years of the sixteenth century but iz was probably made and used long before this the first spinning jenny r machine working eight spindles was invented in 1767 |