Exempel på whorl

• Thus, they may have been used to spin the same types of material, like cotton, as the bead-shaped whorls, although, perhaps, with a looser twist.

• Antennal setae are arranged in whorls, and are especially conspicuous in males.

• The weight, height, inner-hole diameter, and total diameter of each spindle whorl were measured.

• Based on the unfinished margins of some of the irregular beads, these were made from the whorl of marine shells.

• Alternatively, these whorls may not represent a spinning industry at all, but rather areas where weavers consumed surplus thread.

• Associated with the bones discovered at the bottom of the shaft was an offering of four pottery vessels and a spindle whorl.

• Only six spindle whorls were recovered form fill or surface contexts (two were found on the surface, and four came from structural fill).

• Other whorls were modeled from clay to the desired form and often slipped.

• A great deal of flexibility, however, occurs between the size and shape of the spindle whorl and the type of thread produced.

• Mesoamerican spindle whorls are generally bakedclay disks each with a center hole that are used in hand-spinning as counter-weights on a wooden spindle.

• More detailed designs, if present, occur around the sides of the spindle whorl within the center zone.

• The majority of the possible bead whorls are also simply polished, generally spherical forms.

• Whorl decorations were minimal: simple incising or grooving.

• Shells of species in this group have a depressed whorl section.

• In the present assemblage, the only possible horsetail remains are some leaf whorls.