Bride, Brigde or Brigit, has many names, yet most commonly associated with St Brigid of Ireland, or 'Mary of the Gael', with her sheaf of rushes, woven at the feast of Imbolc.

The St Brigid's cross was traditionally woven from rushes on the feast of Imbolc (February 1st) or St Brigid's day and hung by the kitchen hearth. It has many associations, and although it became at one time a forerunner of the swastika, it started further back as cross and before that as solar wheel and with close connections to the number 9...