Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Objects Facet
3. Furnishings and Equipment (hierarchy name)
4. Tools and Equipment (hierarchy name)
5. equipment
6. [equipment by material processed]
7. textile working equipment
8. [textile fabricating tools and equipment]

Additional parents:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Objects Facet
3. Furnishings and Equipment
4. Tools and Equipment
5. equipment
6. equipment by process
7. grinding and milling equipment
8. grinding and milling machinery
9. mills
10. milling machines

Narrower term/s

• ring frames

Anotations

Scope note:

The general term for a range of mechanized devices equipped with long rows of spindles designed to spin and twist cotton fibers into yarn. Lancashire entrepreneur Richard Arkwright is credited with inventing the first spinning frame in 1767, contributing to the Industrial Revolution-era transition to factory-based textile manufacturing. Historically leveraging water power, these machines made it possible to mass produce strong yarn and reduced the need to spin cotton by hand.