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Waulking songs (Scottish Gaelic: Òrain Luaidh) are Scottish folk songs, traditionally sung in the Gaelic language by women while fulling (waulking) cloth. This practice involved a group of women, who traditionally prepared cloth, rhythmically beating newly woven tweed or tartan cloth against a table or similar surface to lightly felt it and ...
In February 2009, a cease-and-desist order was issued by the JFTC for allegedly breaking the Antimonopoly Act, demanding that the society end its blanket-fee system. [2] Under that system, radio and TV stations are allowed unlimited use of JASRAC-managed music copyrights for a flat fee of 1.5% of their annual broadcasting revenue.
In this case, the Wilsons 1819 blanket sett has been combined with its border selvedge pattern, to show a sample of the complete tartan cloth with a right-side selvedge pattern. This type of tartan selvedge replaces or "comes after", as it were, part of the original tartan sett, and consists of several bands that re-use colours from the ...
Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI) is a performance rights organization in the United States. It collects blanket license fees from businesses that use music, entitling those businesses to play or sync any songs from BMI's repertoire of over 22.4 million musical works.
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The original name of tweed fabric was "tweel", the Scots word for twill, as the fabric was woven in a twill weave rather than a plain (or tabby) weave.A number of theories exist as to how and why "tweel" became corrupted into "tweed"; in one, a London merchant in the 1830s, upon receiving a letter from a Hawick firm inquiring after "tweels", misinterpreted the spelling as a trade name taken ...