Spinning wheel

For other uses, see Spinning wheel (disambiguation).

An elderly Irish woman with a spinning wheel
Hindoo Spinning-Wheel (1852)[1]

A spinning wheel is a device for spinning thread or yarn from fibres.[2] It was fundamental to the cotton textile industry prior to the Industrial Revolution. It laid the foundations for later machinery such as the spinning jenny and spinning frame, which displaced the spinning wheel during the Industrial Revolution.

  1. ^ "Hindoo Spinning-Wheel" (PDF). The Wesleyan Juvenile Offering: A Miscellany of Missionary Information for Young Persons. IX. Wesleyan Missionary Society: 108. September 1852. Retrieved 24 February 2016.
  2. ^ "Definition of charkha | Dictionary.com". www.dictionary.com. Retrieved 2020-05-29.