hand-spinning

The unidentified pilot had trouble getting the engine on his Cessna 182 to start from the cockpit so he got out of the plane and attempted to start it by hand-spinning the propeller.

Centennial Pilot's Plane Takes Off Without Him 2010

Via Green Upgrader, artist Greetje van Tiem has created yarn from old newspapers by hand-spinning the paper.

Archive for » 2008 » September : Crafting a Green World 2008

Via Green Upgrader, artist Greetje van Tiem has created yarn from old newspapers by hand-spinning the paper.

Yearn Worthy Yarn: Newspaper 2008

In the East Midlands, there are excavations at a Georgian mill-worker's cottage in Bakewell, demonstrations of hand-spinning at the Cromford Mill, and an industrial heritage day at Hough Mill, Coalville.

Archive 2007-07-01 2007

In the East Midlands, there are excavations at a Georgian mill-worker's cottage in Bakewell, demonstrations of hand-spinning at the Cromford Mill, and an industrial heritage day at Hough Mill, Coalville.

National Archaeology Week in the United Kingdom 2007

Except for the rather small specialized market for high-quality spun cloth, it is hard to make economic sense of hand-spinning, even with wheels less primitive than Gandhi's charka.

Tagore and His India 2001

During the reign of George III. hand-spinning was an industry throughout this district, and at most cottage doors in the villages could be seen wheels busily turning, up to about 1825.

Fragments of Two Centuries Glimpses of Country Life when George III. was King Alfred Kingston

My instructor was Mr. Albert Fleming, who, at the suggestion of Ruskin, had recently revived hand-spinning and hand-weaving in the North of England.

The Story of My Life Terry, Ellen, Dame, 1847-1928 1908

But hand-spinning is now practically an extinct industry and the Katias have taken to weaving or ordinary manual labour for a subsistence.

The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India—Volume I (of IV) Robert Vane Russell 1894

All these inventions again overcrowded the weavers; all attempts at hand-spinning of cotton had become quickly extinct.

Home Life in Colonial Days Alice Morse Earle 1881