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Thread #152258   Message #3562362
Posted By: Jack Campin
28-Sep-13 - 07:43 PM
Thread Name: songs with knitting in them
Subject: RE: songs with knitting in them
A fiddle tune from Shetland, "Auld Swaara":

http://www.tobarandualchais.co.uk/en/fullrecord/89974

The title means a woollen singlet, which was always hand-knitted. I've often heard the tune played as a lament, the idea being that the distinctive pattern of the vest was used to identify the bodies of drowned fishermen.