ABSTRACT
The spinner holds the distaff between the left arm and the body, his left hand is nearer to the distaff than the right, the hands are kept about two inches asunder, and pull from the fleece a continuous lock of cotton wool, the right hand drawing out and twisting so much of the lock as is between it and the left hand into a fine thread, which is farther twisted by a pendent spindle, or bobbin, which is kept constantly twirling round, and on which the thread is afterwards wound. See plate 1.
