Winthrop Public Library & Museum offered its inaugural Makerspace on November 15, opening a designated area on the third floor for patrons to gather and create using complimentary library resources.
Twelve-thousand years ago, people in a coastal village in the Levant used stone weights on their spindles to spin thread faster and more evenly—and, some archeologists are arguing, in the process they ...
Early human cultures likely used stones as spindle whorls to spin fibers into yarn. A collection of perforated pebbles discovered at an archaeological site in Israel may be spindle whorls, marking a ...