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It is difficult to control the three yarns simultaneously, as their speeds are different," said Wang. "It is like three children running, one faster than the other two. I have to control their pace." Wool workers: Saint Blaise is a patron saint of wool workers revered by the Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, and Oriental Orthodox traditions. Severus of Avranches is also considered a patron saint of wool workers by Catholics. Lud' or 'Ludd' ( Welsh: Lludd map Beli Mawr), according to Geoffrey of Monmouth's legendary History of the Kings of Britain and other medieval Welsh texts, was a Celtic King of 'The Islands of Britain' in pre- Roman times, who supposedly founded London and was buried at Ludgate. [8] In the Welsh versions of Geoffrey's Historia, usually called Brut y Brenhinedd, he is called Lludd fab Beli, establishing the connection to the early mythological Lludd Llaw Eraint. [9] Historical precedents [ edit ] Athena then appeared to her properly after Arachne issued a challenge to her. Athena wove a depiction of the gods punishing mortals who got too uppity, while Arachne wove a depiction showing how the gods were jerks a lot of the time to mortals. Artisans who had spent years perfecting their craft in apprenticeships protested the use of untrained workers who generally produced inferior products. Many were willing to adapt to the mechanization of the textile industry as long as they shared in the profits. However, they watched as the productivity gains from technology enriched the capitalists, not the workers.

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Arachne boasted that her famous weaving skills were greater than even Athena’s. The goddess appeared to her in disguise, warning her that her pride (or hubris, as the Greeks called it) was dangerous to her. Athena advised her to ask for forgiveness, but Arachne was unrepentant. Wunijing is the ancient name of Huajing Town, Huang's hometown. She lived during the Yuan Dynasty (1279-1368), and is known as the mother of Chinese textile technology. Huang was a child bride who was mistreated by her in-laws, and finally fled her marital home and went to Hainan Province. Power, Politics and Protest | the Luddites". Learning Curve. The National Archives . Retrieved 19 August 2011. Multiple individuals have been designated as patron saints of various aspects of textile work. The mythology and folklore surrounding their patronage can be found in their respective hagiographies. He found favour with royalty, commissioned to make a film of George VI and the Duchess of York at Balmoral Castle.William Horsfall, a Yorkshire merchant and manufacturer, murdered by Luddites near Huddersfield in 1812. Munger, Frank. "Suppression of Popular Gatherings in England, 1800–1830". American Journal of Legal History 25 (1981): 111+. Lord Byron and the Luddites | The Socialist Party of Great Britain". worldsocialism.org. Archived from the original on 24 June 2016 . Retrieved 22 November 2016. English textile workers consistently found their efforts to negotiate for pensions, minimum wages and standard working conditions rebuffed. Unable to legally form trade unions or strike, the laborers instead wielded sledgehammers to strike a blow against industrial capitalism in what historian Eric Hobsbawm called “collective bargaining by riot.” The Legend of 'General Ludd'

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In Germanic later mythology, Holda (Frau Holle) and Perchta (Frau Perchta, Berchta, Bertha) were both known as goddesses who oversaw spinning and weaving. They had many names. The first step is separating seeds from cotton fibers with the help of a wooden stirring machine, or cotton gin, invented by Huang. The invention of the cotton gin phased out the manual approach, and greatly improved the efficiency of textile making. Jones, Steven E. (2006). Against technology: from the Luddites to Neo-Luddism. CRC Press. ISBN 978-0-415-97868-2. Kang learned weaving skills from her mother when she was 7 years old. At age 11, she mastered the entire cotton weaving process. Find sources: "Textiles in folklore"– news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR ( July 2008) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)

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The measures worked, and the Luddite movement began to dissipate in 1813. Their name, however, endures more than two centuries later. “Luddite” has now become a catch-all term synonymous with “technophobe,” but Binfield says that is a mischaracterization. Huang's cotton gin came around 500 years earlier than Eli Whitney's, which was one of the key inventions of the Industrial Revolution. Mueller, Gavin (2021). "The Nights of King Ludd". Breaking Things at Work: The Luddites Are Right About Why You Hate Your Job. Verso. p.20. ISBN 978-1786636775. Holda, whose patronage extends outward to control of the weather, and source of women's fertility, and the protector of unborn children, is the patron of spinners, rewarding the industrious and punishing the idle. Holda taught the secret of making linen from flax. An account of Holda was collected by the Brothers Grimm, as the fairy tale " Frau Holda". Another of the Grimm tales, " Spindle, Shuttle, and Needle", which embeds social conditioning in fairy tale with mythic resonances, rewards the industrious spinner with the fulfillment of her mantra:

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This is a lesson that one mortal from Greco-Roman mythology learnt the hard way. Her name was Arachne and her duel with Athena, the goddess of wisdom and craftsmanship, is a tale retold over the centuries. It’s a story with many different endings, but always ending with poor Arachne transformed into a spider. Who Is Arachne?