effectively capturing and controlling floating fibers during the spinning process. This innovative approach resulted in a significant reduction in hairiness for both pure cotton and flax/cotton ...

enabling it to efficiently gather up fibers such as wool or flax and spin them into yarn. The stones studied in the new paper, recovered from the Nahal-Ein Gev II dig site in northern Israel ...

When connected, they form a rudimentary wheel-and-axle mechanism that can spin fibers like wool or flax into yarn more efficiently. Spindle whorls simplify and expedite the spinning process by ...