hilar
Eran tres viejas hermanas que hilaban, devanaban y cortaban el hilo de la vida. | They were three old sisters that spun, wound, measured and cut the thread of life. |
Además todas las mujeres sabias de corazón hilaban de sus manos, y traían lo que habían hilado: cárdeno, ó púrpura, ó carmesí, ó lino fino. | And all the women that were wise-hearted spun with their hands, and brought that which they had spun, both of blue, and of purple, and of scarlet, and of fine linen. |
Entonces sí que sabía cosas de los tiempos más remotos, muy anteriores a aquellos en que las princesas hilaban con husos de oro, y acechaban por ahí dragones y vestigios. | She knew so well how to tell about the oldest times, long before the princesses spun with the golden spindles, and the dragons lay outside the castles, guarding them. |
Vivían junto con el padre en las profundidades del mar, hilaban sobre las ruecas de oro, giraban en los corros en el ritmo a las ondas de mar, sostjazalis con los tritones. | They lived together with the father in depths of the sea, spun on gold distaffs, were turned in round dances in a step to sea waves, competed with tritons. |
Bajo su supervisión, decidieron derivar parte de la producción a tejedoras particulares que hilaban en sus hogares de Villa Ballester, barrio que se destacaba por nuclear gran cantidad de emprendimientos textiles por aquellos años. | Under the supervision of Elpiniki and sons they outsourced some weaving to women who weaved at home in Villa Ballester, a neighbourhood that back then held many small textile business. |
Belelli no olvida a sus antepasados indígenas que sembraban para alimentarse; que criaban vacas, cabras y ovejas; que hacían quesos; que hilaban y teñían; que construían ranchos con barro y con pasto. | Furthermore, he does not forget his indigenous ancestors, who sowed to feed themselves; who raised cows, goats and sheep; who made cheese; who spinned and dyed; who built rural houses with mud and grass. |
Así, por ejemplo, cuando la industria textil estaba en manos de artesanos, los pequeños productores hilaban y tejían ellos mismos; la industria tenía pocas ramas (estaban fusionadas las operaciones de hilar y tejer). | When, in the days of handicraft weaving, for example, the small producers themselves spun the yarn and made it into cloth, we had a few branches of industry (spinning and weaving were merged). |
Grandes arañas multicolores, con argénteas coronas en la cabeza, hilaban, de seto a seto, largos puentes colgantes y palacios que, al recoger el tenue rocío, brillaban como nítido cristal a los claros rayos de la luna. | Large speckled spiders, with silver crowns on their heads, were employed to spin suspension bridges and palaces from one hedge to another, and when the tiny drops fell upon them, they glittered in the moonlight like shining glass. |
Pulgarcita tuvo que echar mano del huso, y el ratón contrató a cuatro arañas, que hilaban y tejían para ella día y noche. | Tiny had to turn the spindle, and the field-mouse hired four spiders, who were to weave day and night. |
Las voces eran restituidas con delicadeza y los coros no se hacían abrumadores, mientras que los agudos hilaban fino sin mostrar excesos en ningún momento. | The voices are reproduced with finesse and the choruses are not invasive, while the high notes flow well without being excessive. |
Además todas las mujeres sabias de corazón hilaban con sus manos, y traían lo que habían hilado: azul, púrpura, carmesí o lino fino. | And all the women that were wise hearted did spin with their hands, and brought that which they had spun, both of blue, and of purple, and of scarlet, and of fine linen. |
Estudió detenidamente la estructura mágica que la rodeaba, su forma y la sensación que transmitía, el modo en que las líneas místicas se hilaban para producir un efecto tan horrible y absoluto. | She gazed intently at the magical structure around her, its shape and feel, the way the leylines wove together to produce such a horrible and absolute effect. |
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