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there are other ways to make yarn into flexible clothes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N%C3%A5lebinding is fairly old — mid-bronze age

Felting and weaving (or both) are also quite old.

Interestingly, the spinning wheel isn’t: woven textiles produced in europe before the 13th century would have been produced with yarn or thread made on drop spindles: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spindle_(textiles), and anything spinning-wheel-esque probably developed no earlier than c. 200-1000 globally.




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