Show CRUDE METHODS OF SPINNING which were long in displacing tho spindle end distaff the invention of the art of spinning was ascribed by the ancients to ml nerva the goddess of wisdom says a writer in the housekeeper the date 1500 B C Is given aa that ot the beginning of the art in greece under the direction of the king of arcadia out pictured inscriptions on egyptian mon show that the use of the spin die and distaff was known lc that country much earlier the first als tatt was simply a stick around which the fiber to be spun was loosely colled held in the left hand the was a sort of top set in motion bv a twirl of the hand the fiber passing between the finger and thumb of tie right hand this invention was improved mp roved upon in the course of time by placing the spindle in a frame and making it revolve by mechanical action of the hand or toot in connection with a wheel or treadle thus the true spinning wheel the first recorded use of this was in the eary years of the sixteenth century but 1 was ably made and used long before this the first spinning lenny i machine working eight spindles was invented la 1767 |