"spinning thread" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It refers to the action of turning fibers into yarn or thread using a spinning wheel or other tool. Example: The old woman spent her days in her cottage, spinning thread from the wool of the sheep in her fields.
Describes the daily rituals of the group--eating, spinning thread, praying, soliciting, etc. Discusses Vinoba & his philosophy.
The modern sculptor agreed: "Spinning thread seems to me to be the only activity that actually requires this odd, specific pose," Mr Wenman said.
After a few attempts, a printed plastic model was made, and Mr Wenman also fashioned spinning thread to fall through the statue's arms.
Arkwright, a pioneer in the installation andexploitation of machines for spinning thread, harnessed the BonsallBrook and the Cromford Sough, a local lead mine drain, and startedspinning.
Now the American writer Virginia Postrel has worked with artist and 3D sculptor Cosmo Wenman to try to solve the puzzle – with the pair making a convincing case that she was originally depicted spinning thread.
In an important passage, McCarthy describes a traveler at the rear of a train: "He loves riding the wake, leaning on the rail against the window watching the tracks appear from underneath as though the tram itself were plowing them, churning them up while the box on its roof trailed cable like a spider spinning thread above: making the world by moving through it".
The spring cankerworm (species Paleacrita vernata) and the fall cankerworm (Alsophila pometaria) attack fruit and shade trees, skeletonizing the leaves and spinning threads between the branches.
MIKI KASHTAN is the author of "Spinning Threads of Radical Aliveness: Transcending the Legacy of Separation in our Individual Lives" (Fearless Heart Publications).
The French word for vocation — métier — also means "loom," and Mallarmé referred to himself as a "sacred spider" spinning threads from his mind and weaving them into "marvelous laces".
Hands-on craft techniques - like spinning, threading, weaving, layering and stacking - with the use of found materials and soft materials combine to distinguish a feminine approach to "making" sculpture - in contrast to well known masculine approaches.
They spin thread, they tell stories, they build structures.
