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Show CRUDE METHOOS OF GPINNINO. Which Were Long In Displacing the.; Spindle and Distaff. The Invention of th.i art of spinning was ascribed hy the unr.lonls In Ml-norvn, Ml-norvn, the KDdiler.s of wisdom, says o writer In Tins lloiiNlppor Thu date. 1500 II. C. Is kIvi-ii ii k l li.-it or the bo-RlnnlriK bo-RlnnlriK of tin- .in In (Jrerco. nnilur tho dlro-llnn of tho king of Areidla, hut pirliiicfl Inarriutlonx on Kgyptian mon. uimyits show that the ukj nt the spin-dM spin-dM and 'llstnlT was known In that country much earlier Tho first distaff dis-taff was simply n sstluk, urounil which tho liber lo ho spun was loosoly rolled, held In thu loft hand: I tin spindle waa a sort of top sot in motion hy a twirl of Iho hand, tho filmr piiHKlng between tlm flticor and lliuiiih of Urn right hiitul This invention nas ituproved upon In llir courso of llnio hy placing tlic Kpirullo In :i lr-unr dit! malting it revolve by mrrhanUnl .vllmi of the lllill 01 font In (oiinrrliou with a wh'el oi tifiitlin Him n'vlm; tho truo splnnliiK wIippI Thu Ih hi recorded Hi".1 of Ibis wus in llio oaily years of the slxteiiitli renlnry, lint it was prob-ulily prob-ulily iiimlii mill used long beforo this. Tin- Hisl rtplntiltiK lonny, a machine wnil. ni; , ila uplm: s. was invented in Wii7 |