Telling a story while engaged in textile manufacture? (8,1,4)

I believe the answer is:

spinning a yarn

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'while engaged in textile manufacture?' is the definition.
I don't know anything about this answer so I cannot judge whether it can be defined by this definition.

'telling a story' is the wordplay.
'telling' becomes 'spinning' ('spin' can be a synonym of 'tell').
'story' becomes 'yarn' (synonyms).
'spinning'+'a'+'yarn'='SPINNING A YARN'

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