Song of the thread

...A labor song sung during the work of spinning boiled cocoons onto a spinning wheel to extract thread. It is sung when spinning cotton into thread onto a spinning wheel, and is also called a "thread-pulling song," "thread-pulling song," or "thread-pulling song." With the development of the spinning machine, which uses a gear mechanism to turn a handle to wind thread onto a spool, female factory workers sang spinning songs while using the machine, but this style fell into disuse as mechanization progressed.

*Some of the terminology that refers to "Itotoriuta" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

…煮た繭を糸車に掛けて糸を取る作業にうたう労作歌。綿から糸を糸縒（いとより）車に掛けて取るときにもうたい，糸縒歌，糸取歌，糸引歌などともいう。また，歯車仕掛で取っ手をまわしながら糸枠に糸を巻く座繰（ざぐり）機の発達から，これを使いながらうたう女工たちの座繰歌が生まれたが，機械化がすすむとともに衰退した。…

※「糸取歌」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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