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
Pen spinning the website grew and its limits became apparent, Kam redistributed its information to two new websites, the first one of which, Pentrix, would eventually close indefinitely. On January 11, 2004, the second new website, the Universal Pen Spinning Board, was released and would act as the successor to the Pentix board to be the first pen spinning website with the goal of creating a centralized forum in which pen spinners from any website or location across the world could communicate. PenDolSa, an unrelated Korean pen spinning board released in 2003, acted as the first large-scale pen spinning forum prior to