The rebels took their name, and inspiration, from the apocryphal Ned Ludd, supposedly an apprentice weaver who smashed two knitting frames in 1779 in a “fit of passion.” Robert Calvert wrote a ballad about him in 1985: “They said Ned Ludd was an idiot boy/ That all he could do was wreck and destroy,” the song begins.
叛乱的名字和源头来自内德·勒德（Ned Ludd），据说他是一位纺织学徒工，在1779年的一次“狂躁发作”中砸毁了两台针织机。这个人物很可能是杜撰的。罗伯特·卡尔维特（Robert Calvert）在1985年为勒德写了一曲民谣，开头是这样的：“人们说内德·勒德是个熊孩子/因为他所能做的一切无非是破坏和毁灭。”接着是这样的：“他来到工友们中间，说：‘死于机器’/它们践踏了我们的未来，碾碎了我们的梦想。”