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The Spinning Wheel is also the title/subject of a classic Irish folk song by John Francis Waller. [51] [52] A traditional Irish folk song, Túirne Mháire, is generally sung in praise of the spinning wheel, [53] but was regarded by Mrs Costelloe, who collected it, [54] as "much corrupted", and may have had a darker narrative. It is widely ...
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 ...
The Irish Guild of Weavers, Spinners, and Dyers (IGWSD) is an organisation for the promotion and preservation of hand weaving, spinning and dyeing in Ireland. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Editions of the IGWSD's newsletter are stored in the National Library of Ireland .
A worker spinning cotton at a hand-powered spinning wheel in the 18th century would take more than 50,000 hours to spin 100 lb of cotton; by the 1790s, the same quantity could be spun in 300 hours by mule, and with a self-acting mule it could be spun by one worker in just 135 hours. [23]
Spindle and distaff A spinning wheel used to make yarn. Hand spinning can be done by using a spindle or the spinning wheel. Spinning turns the carded wool fibres into yarn which can then be directly woven, knitted (flat or circular), crocheted, or by other means turned into fabric or a garment. The spinning wheel collects the yarn on a bobbin.
Spinner's weasel (left) and spinning wheel (right) Spinner's weasel or clock reel is a mechanical yarn-measuring device consisting of a spoked wheel with gears attached to a pointer on a marked face (which resembles a clock) and an internal mechanism that makes a "pop" sound after the desired length of yarn is measured (usually a skein). The ...
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A working mule spinning machine at Quarry Bank Mill The only surviving example of a spinning mule built by the inventor Samuel Crompton. The spinning mule is a machine used to spin cotton and other fibres. They were used extensively from the late 18th to the early 20th century in the mills of Lancashire and elsewhere. Mules were worked in pairs ...