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The Irish Homespun Society, a female-led craft advocacy group, set out to ‘keep women spinning in their homes’ in the 1930s and 40s in the decades after textile labour shifted towards industrial production. (The Photographic Collection, B063.29.00014/by Dúchas © National Folklore Collection)

‘We knew she was a fairy when we saw her:’ How Irish folklore around spinning instructed women artisans

Brandi Goddard, University of Alberta

A look at Irish folklore surrounding women’s craft in time for Halloween, a time of the year when boundaries between worlds are said to be thin.

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