The Historical Development of Metal Spinning

What today is classified as spinning encompasses some of the oldest known methods of re-shaping materials and is derived from the ancient Egyptian art of a potting wheel?. The rapidly-rotating manually-powered potters wheel, known to be in use some 3000 years before the birth of Christ, provided the basis for the art of spinning.

The first pointers to the existence of spun parts such as silver tableware or the rims on a circular iron shields were recorded in 25BC.