Hand spinning on these types of wheels, both hands are free (since the wheel is turned with a treadle, rather than by hand), so the spinner can use one hand to draft the fibres and the other to wet them. Modern powered spinning, originally done by water or steam power but now done by electricity, is vastly faster than hand-spinning. The spinning jenny, a multi-spool spinning wheel invented c. 1764 by James Hargreaves, dramatically reduced the amount of work needed to produce yarn of high consistency, with a single worker able to work eight or more spools at once. At roughly the
Spinning House attacked her moral character but nevertheless prompted public debate about the legitimacy of such arrests. The former site of the Spinning House is marked by a blue plaque. Spinning House The Spinning House, also known as the Cambridge House of Correction and Hobson's Bridewell, was a workhouse and prison built in Cambridge in the 1600s and demolished in 1901. In the Victorian era it held local women suspected by Proctors of having a corrupting influence on the male student population, until this power was removed by Act of Parliament in 1893. This removal followed the high-profile case of 17-year-old Daisy