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An elderly Irish woman with a spinning wheel Hindoo Spinning-Wheel (1852) [1]. A spinning wheel is a device for spinning thread or yarn from fibres. [2] It was fundamental to the textile industry prior to the Industrial Revolution.
Habetrot appears in a Selkirkshire folktale which is a variant of the Aarne–Thompson–Uther Index tale type ATU 501, "The Three Old Spinning Women". [2] [3] She is an old, deformed woman who lives underground with a group of other spinsters, all disfigured by their work (some have splayed feet or flat thumbs). The only other named spinster ...
Delia Murphy Kiernan (16 February 1902 – 11 February 1971) was an Irish singer and collector of Irish ballads. She recorded several 78 rpm records in the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s. In 1962 she recorded her only LP , The Queen of Connemara , for Irish Prestige Records, New York, on the cover of which her name appears alongside the LP title.
In Baltic myth, Saule is the life-affirming sun goddess, whose numinous presence is signed by a wheel or a rosette. She spins the sunbeams. The Baltic connection between the sun and spinning is as old as spindles of the sun-stone, amber, that have been uncovered in burial mounds. Baltic legends as told have absorbed many images from ...
"The Spinning Wheel" – written in the 19th century by John Francis Waller and recorded by Delia Murphy. [53] "Nancy Spain" – written by Barney Rush from Dublin, recorded by Christy Moore [7] "The Nightingale" – Irish version of a song dating from the 17th century (Laws P13), recorded by Liam Clancy [69]
Sarah "Tabitha" Babbitt (December 9, 1779 - December 10, 1853) was a Shaker credited as a tool maker and inventor. Inventions attributed to her by the Shakers include the circular saw, the spinning wheel head, and false teeth.
Irish Spinning Wheel Making: Ben Kiely 18: 1988 Shannon One Design: Ben Kiely 19: 1980 Carley's Bridge Potteries: Ray McAnally 20: 1987: Belleek Potteries: Benedict Kiely 21: 1983 Clay Pipe Works: Diarmuid Ó Muirithe 22: 1980: A Dublin Silversmith: Éamonn Mac Thomáis 23: 1989: Powers of the Metal: Diarmuid Ó Muirithe 24: 1981 Stone: Éamonn ...
Feather O' My Wing is an Irish fairy tale collected and published by Irish author Seumas MacManus. The tale belongs to the international cycle of the Animal as Bridegroom as a subtype, with few variants reported across Europe and in Ireland. In it, the heroine is delivered to a cursed or enchanted prince, but breaks a taboo and loses him; later ...