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IN reply to “Cosmopolitan's” question in NATURE (vol. xxix. p. 525), I have been many years in Orkney, but do not remember to have seen the women twisting thread with “the palm of the hand on the thigh,” but the fishermen there twist the short lengths of horsehair line called “snoods,” which when united together form fishing lines of different strengths, in this manner.
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RAE, J. Thread-twisting. Nature 29, 550 (1884). https://doi.org/10.1038/029550d0
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