In literature who was the weaver of Raveloe?
"Silas Marner Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe is the third novel by George Eliot, published in 1861. An outwardly simple tale of a linen weaver, it is notable for its strong realism and its sophisticated treatment of a variety of issues ranging from religion to industrialisation to community. The novel is set in the early years of the 19th century. Silas Marner, a weaver, is a member of a small Calvinist congregation in Lantern Yard, a slum street in Northern England. He is falsely accused of stealing the congregation's funds while watching over the very ill deacon. Two clues"
"Pamphile Pamphile (), ""Plateae filia"" or ""Latoi filia"", was the daughter of Platea, or of Apollo (Latous), a woman of the Greek island of Kos. It is said that silk was first spun by her. She also invented the technique of preparing a thread from cotton wool for spinning on a distaff. She developed the technique of weaving from cotton thread. Pliny the Elder described in 70 BC: ""Silk was obtained by removing the down from the leaves with the help of water"". He also recounted the legend of Pamphile, who invented silk weaving on the Greek island of Kos."
"He said that Pamphile discovered the technique of weaving like a spider's web and that ""she ought not to be cheated of the glory of making a silk dress that covers a woman but reveals her charms"". Aristotle also associated Pamphile with inventing the concept of weaving silk. Pamphile Pamphile (), ""Plateae filia"" or ""Latoi filia"", was the daughter of Platea, or of Apollo (Latous), a woman of the Greek island of Kos. It is said that silk was first spun by her. She also invented the technique of preparing a thread from cotton wool for spinning on a distaff."
"but unravelling it again at night, to keep her suitors from claiming her during the long years while Odysseus was away; Penelope's weaving is sometimes compared to that of the two weaving enchantresses in the ""Odyssey"", Circe and Calypso. Helen is at her loom in the ""Iliad"" to illustrate her discipline, work ethic, and attention to detail. Homer dwells upon the supernatural quality of the weaving in the robes of goddesses. In Roman literature, Ovid in his ""Metamorphoses"" (VI, 575–587) recounts the terrible tale of Philomela, who was raped and her tongue cut out so that she could not tell"
"William Radcliffe William Radcliffe (1761?, Mellor, Derbyshire – 20 May 1842, Stockport) was a British inventor and author of the essay ""Origin of the New System of Manufacture, Commonly Called Power loom Weaving"". Radcliffe came from a modest family which had made the transition from farming to weaving. His father taught him about carding and spinning. In 1785, he purchased several spinning machines that had been developed by James Hargreaves. Hargreaves machines, called the spinning jenny, were the first wholly successful improvement on the traditional spinning wheel. Its advantage was to multiply many times the amount of yarn that could"
"and of the deal she makes with the collector's wife Lydia. Arachne In Greek mythology (and later Roman mythology), Arachne (; from ""spider"", cognate with Latin ""araneus"") was a talented mortal weaver who challenged Athena, goddess of wisdom and crafts, to a weaving contest; this hubris resulted in her being transformed into a spider. There are many versions of the story's weaving contest, with each saying that one or the other won. Arachne was a Lydian maiden who was the daughter of Idmon of Colophon, who was a famous dyer in purple. She was credited to have invented linen cloth"
"have been analysed. The use of trefoil motifs suggested a common origin in a workshop that supplied bindings to Henry, Catherine, and Grolier, the so-called ""atelier au trèfle"" (meaning workshop of the trefoil). However, recent scholarship has thrown more light on the ""atelier au trèfle"" and the binders who worked for the royal family and Grolier, The British Library's bindings catalogue attributes one of Mahieu's bindings to Claude Picques and another to Gomar Estienne. The Bibliothèque nationale de France also credits these two royal binders with commissions for Mahieu. The last binding known to be due to Mahieu was manufactured"
"book titled ""Mam Bia tita conta estória na criol"" (Mãe Bia está a contar histórias em crioulo). A dressmaker, tailor (or snider) made clothes and had an artistic side expressed through handcrafts, and confection of traditional pieces such as patchwork quilt, pockets of market vendors, embroidery, cloth dolls and a many of decoration. She later married Arnaldo da Silva Gonçalves and raised children, one of whom, Carlos Filipe Gonçalves, is a journalist. Ivone Ramos Ivone Aida Lopes Fernandes Ramos (September 7, 1926 – March 3, 2018) was a Cape Verdean writer. She was born to Armando Napoleão Rodrigues Fernandes and"
"mysticism, combined with an intense desire for life may have led to her revival. The opening epigraph, which is repeated in the body of the story, is attributed to Joseph Glanvill, though this quote has not been found in Glanvill's extant work. Poe may have fabricated the quote and attached Glanvill's name in order to associate with Glanvill's belief in witchcraft. Ligeia and Rowena serve as aesthetic opposites: Ligeia is raven-haired from a city by the Rhine while Rowena (believed to be named after the character in ""Ivanhoe"") is a blonde Anglo-Saxon. This symbolic opposition implies the contrast between German"
"Arachne In Greek mythology (and later Roman mythology), Arachne (; from ""spider"", cognate with Latin ""araneus"") was a talented mortal weaver who challenged Athena, goddess of wisdom and crafts, to a weaving contest; this hubris resulted in her being transformed into a spider. There are many versions of the story's weaving contest, with each saying that one or the other won. Arachne was a Lydian maiden who was the daughter of Idmon of Colophon, who was a famous dyer in purple. She was credited to have invented linen cloth and nets while her son Closter introduced the use of spindle"
"and song was also said to cause rain. Later on, Laumės were depicted as very beautiful women, who appeared both naked or wearing a very fine clothing. The Rainbow was often called a ribbon lost by Laumės. What's how they were associated with weaving. Laumės usually appeared in groups of three. They were able to do women’s work perfectly, as are especially skilled in weaving and spinning. They love children, respect industriousness and help those in need. They punish those who ridicule them, and those who are lazy. Following are two example folk tales featuring Laumės: A woman was harvesting"
"the weaving competition between Athena the goddess, and Arachne, sometimes described as a princess. This story may have originated in Lydian mythology; but the myth, briefly mentioned by Virgil in 29 BC, is known from the later Greek mythos after Ovid wrote the poem ""Metamorphoses"" between the years AD 2 and 8. The Greek ""arachne"" (αράχνη) means ""spider"", and is the origin of Arachnida, the spiders' taxonomic class. This myth tells of Arachne, the daughter of a famous Tyrian purple wool dyer in Hypaepa of Lydia. Due to her father's skill with cloth dyeing, Arachne became adept in the art"
"daughters of a certain poor man, of whom the first was called Marcovefa, who wore the robe of a nun, and the other was Merofled. The king was very much in love with them. They were, as I have said, the daughters of a worker in wool. Ingoberga was jealous that they were loved by the king and secretly gave the father work to do, thinking that when the king saw this he would dislike his daughters. While he was working she called the king. He expected to see something strange, but only saw this man at a distance weaving"
"Rydingsvärd. Von Rydingsärd carved frames for a number of Volk's paintings, and taught woodcarving to Wendell Volk. By the turn of the century, Marion Larrabee Volk had begun using traditional area looms to weave textiles and rugs. Rather than cotton, she became known for handwoven woolen work. Her designs were based on motifs from Native American art, and she made her own dyes out of natural materials – apple, yellow oak and maple tree bark; goldenrod, barberry, St. John's wort and madder root. In a communal effort with her children and local residents, she produced ""Sabatos"" rugs and textiles, named"
"Eva Wolfe Eva Wolfe (July 24, 1922 – February 6, 2004) was an accomplished basket weaver from North Carolina. Wolfe was known for weaving rivercane baskets, a traditional type of Cherokee basketry. She earned special distinction for her accomplishments in doubleweave basketry, a difficult plaited basket weaving technique. She was honored with a number of awards for her achievements as an artist, including the Brown-Hudson Folklore Award from the North Carolina Folklore Society in 1988 and the North Carolina Heritage Award in 1989. Eva Wolfe was born in the Soco community of the Qualla Indian Reservation. She learned the craft"
"the woollen textile). However, this legend is probably the result of confusion with a different saint, Blasius of Caesarea (""Caesarea"" being also the Latin name of Jersey). In iconography, Blaise is represented holding two crossed candles in his hand (the Blessing of St. Blaise), or in a cave surrounded by wild beasts, as he was found by the hunters of the governor. He is often shown with the instruments of his martyrdom, steel combs. The similarity of these instruments of torture to wool combs led to his adoption as the patron saint of wool combers in particular, and the wool"
"has a lengthy digression – in this case, Marlowe's invented story of how scholars became poor. Marlowe certainly knew the story as told by both Ovid and by the Byzantine poet Musæus Grammaticus; Musaeus appears to have been his chief source. Yet if Musaeus and Ovid gave it impetus, the poem is marked by Marlowe's unique style of extravagant fancy and violent emotion. Perhaps the most famous instance of these qualities in the poem is the opening description of Hero's costume, which includes a blue skirt stained with the blood of ""wretched lovers slain"" and a veil woven with flowers"
"common material in southern California, while sedge, willow, redbud, and devil's claw are also used. Pomo basket weavers are known to weave 60–100 stitches per inch and their rounded, coiled baskets adorned with quail's topknots, feathers, abalone, and clamshell discs are known as ""treasure baskets"". Three of the most celebrated Californian basket weavers were Elsie Allen (Pomo), Laura Somersal (Wappo), and the late Pomo-Patwin medicine woman, Mabel McKay, known for her biography, ""Weaving the Dream"". Louisa Keyser was a highly influential Washoe basket weaver. A complex technique called ""doubleweave,"" which involves continuously weaving both an inside and outside surface is"
"in the manufacture of wool. She was said to have been a native of Hypæpæ, near Colophon in Asia Minor. One version appears in the ""Metamorphoses"" of the Roman poet Ovid. In this version, Arachne was a shepherd's daughter who began weaving at an early age. She became a great weaver, boasted that her skill was greater than that of Athena, and refused to acknowledge that her skill came, in part at least, from the goddess. Athena took offense and set up a contest between them. Presenting herself as an old lady, she approached the boasting girl and warned: ""You"
"(1536) for the same fabric. The alleged invention of the fabric, around 1300, by a weaver called Baptiste or Jean-Baptiste Cambray or Chambray, from the village of Castaing in the peerage of Marcoing, near Cambrai, has no historic ground. Cambric was a finer quality and more expensive than lawn (from the French ""laune"", initially a plain-weave linen fabric from the city of Laon in France). Denoting a geographic origin from the city of Cambrai or its surroundings (""Cambresis"" in French), cambric is an exact equivalent of the French ""cambrésine"" (), a very fine, almost sheer white linen plain-weave fabric, to"
"in between working. According to legend, he hung the lyre on the wall and it miraculously played by itself; upon hearing this, Dunstan, Æthelwynn, and all her work women who were present, ""were seized with dread and, altogether forgetful of the work in their hands, they stared at each other in amazement.” The story of Æthelwynn and Saint Dunstan offers insight into the relationships between commissioner, designer, and craftsperson in the production of textiles. She is a unique example, as it was common not to seek original designs for embroidery work. Æthelwynn Æthelwynn (often spelled Ethylwynn, Ethylwyn, or Ethelwynn) was"
"is identifiable by her emblems: most often it is the loom's shuttle, with its two recognizable hooks at each end, upon her head. According to E. A. Wallis Budge (""The Gods of the Egyptians"") the root of the word for ""weaving"" and also for ""being"" are the same: ""nnt"". In Greece the Moirai (the ""Fates"") are the three crones who control destiny, and the matter of it is the art of spinning the thread of life on the distaff. Ariadne, the wife of the god Dionysus in Minoan Crete, possessed the spun thread that led Theseus to the center of"
"considered, along with her other traits, to be a weaving deity. Weavers had a repertory of tales: in the 15th century Jean d'Arras, a Northern French storyteller (""trouvere""), assembled a collection of stories entitled ""Les Évangiles des Quenouilles"" (""Spinners' Tales""). Its frame story is that these are narrated among a group of ladies at their spinning. 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"
"be spun by a single operator. This development and others such as weavers being able to rely on uninterrupted supplies of yarn led to spinning being concentrated in factories. In 1789, Radcliffe opened a large cotton weaving factory at Mellor, in Derbyshire. He streamlined the process by inventing a machine to improve the quality of cloth. In 1804 he invented a ratchet wheel that moved the cloth forward automatically. Radcliffe also contributed to the debate amongst entrepreneurs on what constituted profits in a capitalist system. In a letter dated 1 May 1804, which was never sent but later published in"
"of the texture made the article so popular that it was soon very largely manufactured in Glasgow and its neighbourhood. As late as 1771 striped and checkered linen cloth and handkerchiefs were among the most important textile manufactures of Glasgow. Probably in consequence of being outstripped by imitators with larger means of carrying on the new manufacture, Flakefield himself seems to have obtained no benefit from the success of his scheme, for in his old age he was made town-drummer of Glasgow, and died in that office. William Flakefield William Flakefield (fl. 1700), was the first weaver of checked linen"
"churchyard of Dunfermline Abbey. Erskine Beveridge Erskine Beveridge FRSE FSA(Scot) (27 December 1851 – 10 August 1920) was a Scottish textile manufacturer, historian and antiquary. He was the owner of Erskine Beveridge & Co. Ltd., which had been founded by his father in 1832 and was the largest linen manufacturer in Dunfermline, Fife. He travelled extensively in Scotland, taking numerous photographs and publishing several scholarly books on Scottish history and archaeology. He was born in Dunfermline, the eldest of four children of Erskine Beveridge (1803–1864) and his second wife, Maria Elizabeth Wilson (1816–1873). He was educated at the Free Abbey"
"Stripweave Stripweave is a textile technique in which large numbers of thin strips of cloth are sewn together to produce a finished fabric. Most stripweave is produced in West Africa from handwoven fabric, of which the example best known internationally is the kente cloth of Ghana. The earliest evidence of this traditional technique dates to the eleventh century among the Tellem people of Mali. Cotton, silk, and rayon are the usual fibers for stripweave garment production. Traditionally these were hand spun, although machine spun synthetics are coming into increasing use. Wool is also in use for stripweave blankets by the"
"work from his pattern book is still held at the Herbert Art Gallery and Museum. Thomas Stevens (weaver) Thomas Stevens (1828–1888) was a 19th-century weaver from Coventry, famous for his invention of the stevengraph, a woven silk picture. In the 19th century the town of Coventry, England, was the centre of a ribbon weaving industry. Thomas Stevens was born in Foleshill, just to the north of Coventry, in 1828 to a relatively poor family. Stevens worked for Pears and Franklin, a local ribbon weavers in Coventry, and by 1854 had created his own ribbon firm. In 1860, however, the Cobden–Chevalier"
"Islands by the late 19th century: the function and nature of barkcloth production was transferred to tivaevae. Tivaevae Tivaevae or tivaivai () in the Cook Islands, tifaifai in French Polynesia, is a form of artistic quilting traditionally done by Polynesian women. The word literally means ""patches"", in reference to the pieces of material sewn together. The tivaevae are either made by one woman or can be created in groups of women called ""vainetini"". The ""vainetini"" use this time together to bond, sing and catch up on village news. Tivaevae are often given on very special occasions either to important visitors,"
"work has become a speciality of Mangaia. The weaving of rito is a speciality of the northern islands, Manihiki, Rakahanga and Penrhyn. A major art form in the Cook Islands is tivaevae. This is, in essence, the art of handmade Island scenery patchwork quilts. Introduced by the wives of missionaries in the 19th century, the craft grew into a communal activity, which is probably one of the main reasons for its popularity. The Cook Islands has produced internationally recognised contemporary artists, especially in the main island of Rarotonga. Artists include painter (and photographer) Mahiriki Tangaroa, sculptors Eruera (Ted) Nia (originally"
"present-day appearance. The town developed on its side its own defense system. Beatrix of Gavere, the wife of Guy IX de Laval, who lived in the 13th century, is believed to be at the origin of the textile tradition of the town. Born in Flanders, she would have brought Flemish weavers with her, and would have encouraged linen production. Linen weaving remained the main economic activity of the town until the 19th century. During the Hundred Years' War, the town was taken by the English in 1428, commended by John Talbot. It became French again a year later. The fighting"
"The tivaevae's origins are uncertain. Rongokea (1992) believes it to be an imported art form, and cites two sets of Christian missionaries in the 19th century as possible origins. While it is known that these female missionaries taught the indigenous women how to sew, it is not certain that they taught them the craft of quilting or making bed coverlets. The appliqué style of tivaevae quilting appears to have been influence by Pennsylvanian German scherenschnitte or Victorian folded paper-cutting traditions. Multiple origins and influences thus seem likely. As an art form, tivaevae replaced barkcloth production in Tahiti and the Cook"
"reinforced to produce Morris's ""Chaucer"" in 1896. Other owners of Morris's Albion press include Frederic Goudy and J. Ben Lieberman. Sources Other William Morris William Morris (24 March 1834 – 3 October 1896) was a British textile designer, poet, novelist, translator, and socialist activist. Associated with the British Arts and Crafts Movement, he was a major contributor to the revival of traditional British textile arts and methods of production. His literary contributions helped to establish the modern fantasy genre, while he played a significant role in propagating the early socialist movement in Britain. Born in Walthamstow, Essex, to a wealthy"