Show CRUDE METHODS OF SPINNING wh ch were long in D splicing sp lacing the sp adle and D staff the invention of the art of spinning was ascribed by the ancients to mi ml nerva the goddess of wisdom says a writer in the housekeeper the date 1500 13 C Is given as that ol 01 the beginning of the art in greece under the direction of the king of arcadia out pictured inscriptions on egyptian nion men show that the use of the spin die and distaff was known IE ir that country much earlier the first dis taff was simply a stick around which the fiber to be spun was loosely colled coiled held in the left hand the spir die was a sort of top set in motion bv by a twirl of the hand the fiber passing between the finger and thumb of tie tle right hand this invention was improved upon I 1 in n the course of time bv placing the spindle in a frame and making it revolve by mechanical act in i of the hand or toot foot in connection with a wheel or treadle thus giving the true spinning wheel the first Te recorded corded use of this was in the ear y years of the sixteenth century but I 1 was ably made and used long before this the first spinning jenny t machine working eight spindles was invented in 1767 |