90,000-Year-Old String Found

Spinning is older than scientists thought.

Scientists have found string they believe to be 90,000 years old in south-east France. Bruce Hardy and his team from Kenyon College found, “..0.7-millimetre-long plant fibres that are twisted together …” An article in New Scientist goes on to say that these fibers are not naturally twisted together in nature.

Which of course means that spinning and spinners have been around a lot longer than originally thought.

 

Do you remember your first yarn? I didn’t keep mine, though I wish I did. It was a mess and beautiful all in one mishmashed ball. It was an unknown breed, not soft at all and white. I made a lumpy bumpy yarn on my new to me Reeves castle wheel. It felt like magic.