The spinning industry is one of the oldest industries known to man since ancient times, as more than 5,000 years ago man learned to spin silk threads. Among the most famous countries that knew spinning in ancient times are Egypt, India, and China. It is worth noting that Egyptian history recorded drawings of the ancient loom used in spinning and weaving on the walls of temples, and fibers were also obtained from spun and woven threads dating back to ancient Pharaonic times.
The spinning industry has gone through many stages of development throughout the ages, and each civilization has contributed to enriching and developing this industry in its own way. The Islamic civilization, for example, with its distinctive moving loom, had its own contribution to the development of the spinning industry in many countries of the world.
It is worth noting that the spinning industry was affected by the general development that occurred in the industry in general, especially at the beginning of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.
Linen was one of the most famous fibers that was used by the Pharaohs at that time, unlike wool, which was rarely used at that time even by the Romans. As for the threads, they were spun by hand, and women were the ones who specialized in particular in this part of the textile industry, with a small spindle attached to the thread to be woven, and the loom was the loom. It was also woven horizontally until the Hyksos entered, and the vertical loom was used after that. Egyptian thread at that time was distinguished by the direction of the thread, which was towards the left in the shape of the letter S, unlike a few models in which the direction of the thread was in the shape of the letter Z, which means that it was right side .
The spindle was small in most cases, as it was approximately 37 centimeters long. The spindle was used in this description in spinning flax, as it consisted of a round wooden disc mounted on a thin stand that ended with a pointed tip for easy control. It is worth noting that this pointed tip is in the modern era. It ends with a metal hook to which the thread is tied.
He used a flax comb made of acacia wood, which had a hand to hold and control with it, for the purpose of combing the flax after it had been ground and ground. The comb consisted of several parts connected to each other using wooden nails interlocked from the inside.
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