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Weavers
Weaver or Weavers may refer to: Activities * A person who engages in weaving fabric Animals * Various birds of the family Ploceidae * Crevice weaver spider family * Orb-weaver spider family * Weever (or weever-fish) Arts and entertainment * Weaver (Stephen Baxter), ''Weaver'' (Stephen Baxter), the fourth novel in Baxter's Time's Tapestry series * The Weavers, a folk music group formed in 1947 by Ronnie Gilbert, Lee Hays, Fred Hellerman and Pete Seeger * The Weavers (1905 film), ''The Weavers'' (1905 film), a silent, black and white documentary film made in 1905 by the Balkan film pioneers the Manaki brothers * The Weavers (play), ''The Weavers'' (play), English title of ''Die Weber'', a play by Gerhart Hauptmann * Weaver, an abandoned ghost town in the 2002 film Disappearance (2002 film), ''Disappearance'' * Corporal Weaver, a character in the 1998 DreamWorks Animation animated film ''Antz'' * Weaver, the codename for Taylor Hebert in the web serial ''Worm (web serial), Wor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Weavers
The Weavers were an American folk music quartet based in the Greenwich Village area of New York City originally consisting of Lee Hays, Pete Seeger, Ronnie Gilbert, and Fred Hellerman. Founded in 1948, the group sang traditional folk songs from around the world, as well as blues, gospel music, children's songs, labor songs, and American ballads. The group sold millions of records at the height of their popularity, including the first folk song to reach No. 1 on popular music charts, their recording of Lead Belly's "Goodnight, Irene." Despite their popularity, the Weavers were blacklisted during much of the 1950s. During the Red Scare, members of the group were followed by the FBI and denied recording and performance opportunities, with Seeger and Hays called in to testify before the House Committee on Un-American Activities. Pete Seeger left the group in 1958. His tenor and banjo part was covered in succession by Erik Darling, Frank Hamilton (musician), Frank Hamilton and fina ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Weavers' Way
The Weavers' Way is a long-distance footpath in Norfolk, England. Much of the Weavers’ Way footpath follows the old trackbed of the Aylsham North railway station, Aylsham to Yarmouth Beach railway station, Great Yarmouth railway line, which was operated by the Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway and was closed in 1959. Route The Weavers' Way runs from Cromer to Great Yarmouth. It passes through Hanworth, Norfolk, Hanworth, Aylsham, North Walsham, Worstead, Stalham, Potter Heigham, Thurne and Halvergate; it then crosses the marshes around Berney Arms and skirts the northern edge of Breydon Water where it shares the same route as the Wherryman's Way. on the Long Distance Walkers Association, LDWA website The name ''Weavers' Way'' comes from the cloth industry that was once a ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Weavers (play)
''The Weavers'' (, Silesian German: ) is a play in five acts written by the German playwright Gerhart Hauptmann in 1892. The play, probably Hauptmann's most important drama, sympathetically portrays a group of Silesian weaving, weavers who staged an Silesian weavers' uprising, uprising in 1844 due to their concerns about the Industrial Revolution. The play was translated into Yiddish language, Yiddish by Pinchas Goldhar in the 1920s, after which it became a favorite of the Yiddish stage. In 1927 it was adapted into a German silent film ''The Weavers (1927 film), The Weavers'' directed by Frederic Zelnik and starring Paul Wegener. A Broadway version of ''The Weavers'' was staged in 1915–1916. Plot summary Most of the characters are proletarians struggling for their rights. Unlike most plays of any period, as pointed out many times in literary criticism and introductions, the play has no true central character, providing ample opportunities for ensemble acting. Criticism Critic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Weaver Settlement, Nova Scotia
Weaver or Weavers may refer to: Activities * A person who engages in weaving fabric Animals * Various birds of the family Ploceidae * Crevice weaver spider family * Orb-weaver spider family * Weever (or weever-fish) Arts and entertainment * ''Weaver'' (Stephen Baxter), the fourth novel in Baxter's Time's Tapestry series * The Weavers, a folk music group formed in 1947 by Ronnie Gilbert, Lee Hays, Fred Hellerman and Pete Seeger * ''The Weavers'' (1905 film), a silent, black and white documentary film made in 1905 by the Balkan film pioneers the Manaki brothers * ''The Weavers'' (play), English title of ''Die Weber'', a play by Gerhart Hauptmann * Weaver, an abandoned ghost town in the 2002 film ''Disappearance'' * Corporal Weaver, a character in the 1998 DreamWorks Animation animated film ''Antz'' * Weaver, the codename for Taylor Hebert in the web serial ''Worm'' * Weaver Marquez, a character in the narrative videogame Kentucky Route Zero * Grigori Weaver, a characte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Weaving
Weaving is a method of textile production in which two distinct sets of yarns or threads are interlaced at right angles to form a fabric or cloth. Other methods are knitting, crocheting, felting, and braiding or plaiting. The longitudinal threads are called the warp and the lateral threads are the weft, woof, or filling. The method in which these threads are interwoven affects the characteristics of the cloth. Cloth is usually woven on a loom, a device that holds warp threads in place while filling threads are woven through them. A fabric band that meets this definition of cloth (warp threads with a weft thread winding between) can also be made using other methods, including tablet weaving, back strap loom, or other techniques that can be done without looms. The way the warp and filling threads interlace with each other is called the weave. The majority of woven products are created with one of three basic weaves: plain weave, satin weave, or twill weave. Woven cl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerhart Hauptmann
Gerhart Johann Robert Hauptmann (; 15 November 1862 – 6 June 1946) was a German dramatist and novelist. He is counted among the most important promoters of Naturalism (literature), literary naturalism, though he integrated other styles into his work as well. He received the 1912 Nobel Prize in Literature, Nobel Prize in Literature in 1912. Life Childhood and youth Gerhart Hauptmann was born in 1862 in Szczawno-Zdrój, Obersalzbrunn, now known as Szczawno-Zdrój, in Lower Silesia (then a part of the Kingdom of Prussia, now a part of Poland). His parents were Robert and Marie Hauptmann, who ran a hotel in the area. As a youth, Hauptmann had a reputation of being loose with the truth. His elder brother was Carl Hauptmann. Beginning in 1868, he attended the village school and then, in 1874, the Realschule in Breslau for which he had only barely passed the qualifying exam. Hauptmann had difficulties adjusting himself to his new surroundings in the city. He lived, along with his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Weavers, Ohio
Weavers is an unincorporated community in Darke County, in the U.S. state of Ohio Ohio ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of the United States. It borders Lake Erie to the north, Pennsylvania to the east, West Virginia to the southeast, Kentucky to the southwest, Indiana to the .... History A former variant name of Weavers was Weavers Station. The community was named for Peter Weaver, the original owner of the town site. A post office called Weavers Station was established in 1868, and remained in operation until 1914. Besides the post office, Weavers Station contained a railroad station, grain elevator, and country store. References Unincorporated communities in Darke County, Ohio Unincorporated communities in Ohio {{DarkeCountyOH-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Weavers (1905 Film)
''The Weavers'' or ''Grandmother Despina'' is a short silent, black and white documentary film made in 1905 by the Balkan film pioneers the Manaki brothers in the small Aromanian village of Avdella (), in the Ottoman vilayet of Monastir presently modern Greece. It is about 60 seconds long and depicts the Manakis' aunts and 114-year-old grandmother Despina spinning and weaving. It was originally called "Our 114-year-old grandmother at work weaving", but has come to be known as ''The Weavers''. , S. 23. (Ger.) It is believed to be the first film shot anywhere in the Ottoman Balkans. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ploceidae
Ploceidae is a family of small passerine birds, many of which are called weavers, weaverbirds, weaver finches, or bishops. These names come from the nests of intricately woven vegetation created by birds in this family. In most recent classifications, the Ploceidae are a clade that excludes some birds that have historically been placed in the family, such as some of the Old World sparrow, sparrows, but which includes the monotypic subfamily Amblyospizinae. The family is believed to have originated in the mid-Miocene. All birds of the Ploceidae are native to the Old World, most in Africa south of the Sahara, though a few live in tropical areas of Asia. A few species have been Introduced species, introduced outside their native range. Taxonomy and systematics The family Ploceidae was introduced (as Ploceïdes) by Swedish zoologist Carl Jakob Sundevall in 1836. Phylogenetic studies have shown that the family is sister taxon, sister to a clade containing the families Viduidae and Estr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Weaver, Indiana
Weaver is an unincorporated community in Liberty Township, Grant County, Indiana. Weaver's first settlers were free people of color who migrated from North Carolina and South Carolina to Grant County in the early 1840s. The neighborhood was originally known as Crossroad; however, it was later renamed Weaver in honor of a prominent family of the community. The rural settlement reached its peak in the late 1800s, when its population reportedly reached 2,000. Many of its residents left the community for higher-paying jobs in larger towns during the Indiana's natural gas boom, but more than 100 families remained in the settlement in the early 1920s. Weaver, as with most of Indiana's black rural settlements, no longer exists as a self-contained community, but Weaver Cemetery remains as a community landmark. History Weaver was one of Indiana's early black pioneer communities. Dating from the 1840s, Weaver's first settlers were free people of color and ex-slaves, who migrated from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Weaver Building
The Weaver building was a flour mill and corn storage building which stood alongside the half-tide basin of the Swansea docks, North Dock in Swansea, South Wales between 1897 and 1984, and was notable as an early reinforced concrete structure. Six storeys high, 80 ft by 40 ft by 112 ft, with its lower floor cantilevered some 10 ft above loading bays, it formed part of a complex of buildings owned by Weaver & Co. and was designed and built by the French engineer François Hennebique in 1897, being an early example of a reinforced concrete building in Europe. The building survived World War II bombings in 1941, the general post-war clearance of other industrial buildings in the area and the filling in of the adjacent basin in the late 1960s, but was demolished in 1984 to make way for a new Sainsbury's superstore. A column from the fifth floor of the original building was preserved by the Science Museum, London, Science Museum, with another piece going to Amber ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Weavers, New South Wales
Weavers is a historical locality of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising mainland Australia, the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and list of islands of Australia, numerous smaller isl .... It is located in the City of Hawkesbury east of Leets Vale. Suburbs of Sydney City of Hawkesbury {{Sydney-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
