  a spinning wheel is a device for spinning thread or yarn from natural or synthetic fibres. spinning wheels appeared in asia, probably in the 11th century, and very gradually replaced hand spinning with spindle and distaff. spinning machinery, such as the spinning jenny and spinning frame, displaced the spinning wheel during the industrial revolution. ==history==  the earliest clear illustrations of the spinning wheel come from baghdad (drawn in 1234),image of a spinning wheel in: al-hariri, al-maqamat (les sÃ©ances). painted by yahya ibn mahmud al-wasiti, baghdad, 1237 see: spinning, history & gallery  (retrieved march 4, 2013) china (c. 1270) and europe (c. 1280), and there is evidence that spinning wheels had already come into use in both china and the islamic world during the eleventh century. according to irfan habib, the spinning wheel was introduced into india from iran in the thirteenth century. in france the spindle and distaff were not displaced until the mid 18th century.  according to mark elvin, 14th-century chinese technical manuals describe an automatic water-powered spinning wheel. comparable devices were not developed in europe until the 18th century. however, it fell into disuse when fiber production shifted from hemp to cotton. it was forgotten by the 17th century. the decline of the automatic spinning wheel in china is an important part of elvin's [[high level equilibrium t
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