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==Historical context== {{Main article|Textile manufacture during the Industrial Revolution}} In 1760 England, yarn production from wool, flax and cotton was still a [[cottage industry]] in which fibres were [[carding|carded]] and spun by hand using a [[spinning wheel]]. As the [[textile industry]] expanded its markets and adopted faster machines, yarn supplies became scarce especially due to innovations such as the doubling of the loom speed after the invention of the [[flying shuttle]]. High demand for yarn spurred invention of the [[spinning jenny]] in 1764, followed closely by the invention of the spinning frame, later developed into the [[water frame]] (patented in 1769). Mechanisms had increased production of yarn so dramatically that by 1830 the cottage yarn industry in England could no longer compete and all spinning was carried out in [[factory|factories]].{{sfn|Hammond|Hammond|1919|p=50}}
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