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In 1700 it took one spinner and one weaver to make one roll of cloth. By 1733, the Flying Shuttle had been invented. This improved the weaving technique but pressured the spinners who had to work harder. The Spinning Jenny was invented by James Hargreaves in 1764, the Spinning Jenny was designed to have a carriage that pulled away raw cotton, draw it out into a thin thread, and then wound around a spindle as the carriage returned. The new method increased the spinners output by ten-fold. The Spinn