Fibres, Yarns and the Invention of the Spinning Jenny

Open the link below for John Styles’ paper ‘Fibres, Yarns and the Invention of the Spinning Jenny’, written for the session ‘Popularizing Fabrics and Clothing, 17^th to 19^th centuries: Materiality, Value Formation and Technology’ at the World Economic History Congress, Boston, USA, 29 July to 3 August, 2018.

Styles-Spinning-jenny-WEHC-2018-2.pdf