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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.
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 ...
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.
"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]
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.
Mary O'Hara (born 12 May 1935) is an Irish soprano and harpist from County Sligo.She gained attention on both sides of the Atlantic in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Her recordings of that period influenced a generation of Irish female singers who credit O'Hara with influencing their style, among them Carmel Quinn, Mary Black and Moya Brennan.
Spinning Wheel" was kept out of the no. 1 position by both "The Love Theme from Romeo and Juliet" by Henry Mancini and "In the Year 2525" by Zager and Evans. [2] In August that year, the song topped the Billboard Easy Listening chart for two weeks. [3] It was also a crossover hit, reaching No.45 on the US R&B chart.
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).