Meanwhile with the other hand you feed out more wool from a bunch you are holding. The spindle twists it up for you as it falls. All of the cloth used in the ancient world was made with thread produced in just this way. Also, thread and rope for nets and ships was made this way. As with a yoyo, people who have been practicing for a while can spin while doing other things.
People spin while they are walking somewhere, or riding a donkey.
People spin while they are talking to their friends, and even in the dark after the fire is out for the night. Both men and women could spin, though women did most of the spinning for clothes, and men did the spinning for nets and rope. Women probably did more spinning. You need so much thread to make clothes that women probably needed to spin pretty much all the time. T here are a lot of different fibers that people used to spin.