What is the difference between spinning and weaving?

Spinning and weaving are two steps in the production of
textiles. However, the differences lie in the raw material used, process and end
product.

Spinning produces
thread, starting with plant products (say, cotton or flax) and animal products (say,
wool or silk) or synthetic material; and the process of spinning may include carding the
fiber, combing the fiber and forming rovings, smaller twists of carded and combed fiber
to work with when spinning thread or
yarn.

Weaving uses the
finished thread or yarn available at the end of the spinning process and converts it
into cloth. The weaving process requires a loom, while the spinning process makes use of
a spindle or wheel. Weaving creates fabric by passing continuous rounds of thread
crosswise through long, firmly held in place threads that provide the warp of the
fabric, while the alternating up-down, over-under continuous, single crosswise thread
provides the weft of the
fabric.

Spinning produces a
long but thin continuous thread for use in sewing, knitting, embroidery or weaving.
Weaving produces long widths of continuous lengths of
fabric that is made of multiple length-wise threads interwoven with one single,
continuous crosswise thread and that is used to further produce goods such as clothing,
blanketing and toweling.