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Spinning cotton Activity

by David Shaw, 25 July 2019 | 0 comments

A green bead the size of a marble threaded onto a piece of string.

Most clothes are woven from thread, then sewn together with thread. While there are now many human-made fibres, cotton is the most widely used of the natural fibres in clothing. So why not try spinning your own cotton thread, and learn a bit more about how clothes are made?

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