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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.
Rynhart was born Jeanne Scuffil in Dublin on 17 March 1946. [1] Her parents were Kathleen Connolly and Frederick Scuffil, the latter a sign writer for Guinness. [citation needed] She was an apprentice to George Collie RHA for 2 years, and then attended the National College of Art and Design.
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.
Spinning is an ancient textile art in which plant, animal or synthetic fibres are drawn out and twisted together to form yarn. For thousands of years, fibre was spun by hand using simple tools, the spindle and distaff. After the introduction of the spinning wheel in the 13th century, the output of individual spinners increased dramatically.
This is a list of women artists who were born in Ireland or whose artworks are closely associated with that country. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
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 ...
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.
A woman at the spinning wheel and a man with a mug seated in an interior. c. 1560–1570 76 × 63 cm Rijksmuseum Amsterdam Inventory number SK-A-3962