Kristal was able to use the replicas to spin flax into yarn, and determined that using the whorls was a more efficient method to do so than just “twisting the fibers between your thigh and your ...

Due to their size and the presence of whorls, the pebbles were likely used as an early version of a spinning wheel to gather ...

Early human cultures likely used stones as spindle whorls to spin fibers into yarn. A collection of perforated pebbles discovered at an archaeological site in Israel may be spindle whorls, marking a ...

After the flax is harvested it goes through many processes to become yarn The arrival of large amounts of Scottish people during the Plantation of Ulster helped contribute to the huge growth of ...

Over 100 small stone objects from Neolithic period are the earliest instance of 'spindle whorls,' used to spin fibers into yarn, predating previously known textile tools by 4,000 years The post 12,000 ...

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 ...

The yarn used to be created on the site too and in a room just above the ropewalk raw fibres of hemp and flax were combed and spun. The rope made here has been used on the Cutty Sark and the HMS ...