Ashley Levinson

Michelle Goggins

Wooden pirns collected inside a European weaving mill. These tapered spools carry weft yarn for shuttle looms, ensuring a continuous flow of thread across the warp during weaving. Simple in appearance, pirns are a critical tool in fabric production — a reminder that textile manufacturing depends as much on small components as on large machines.

Bergstrand Consultancy

Bonnie Hawkins

a spool of blue yarn sitting on top of a table

Spools of yarn used for textile production at Towel Studio in Berlin, Germany.

towel.studio

A row of different colored thread spools on a table

Ilze Vanaga

rows of spools of thread on display in a store

Andy Kennedy

Spools of thread and colored pencils arranged on a surface.

Debby Hudson

photo of three assorted-color-and-design commemorative coins

Fleur

A bucket filled with lots of blue and brown items