experiments with video and photography from a city in free fall
Saturday, July 10, 2010
Weaver's cottage at Colmcille
Note: I'll have to go back and correct all the Gaelic spellings. They were tougher than driving on the wrong side of the road.
A lush potato field.
The weaver's cottage. Her large loom was in an extension built onto the back. That was her garden in the earlier picture. She wove the shawl pictured above.
We walked into her cottage, and immediately saw something familiar. The loom shown in the picture holds a pattern of weaving identical to a very old blanket passed down from my father's supposedly Scottish side of the family. Family lore says it was made from sheep's wool shorn and spun by the family of my 4GGrandfather, and then woven on the family loom (in the US, Indiana), between 1750 and 1815 or so.
A lush potato field.
I remember that something that was spelled something like "teach" was pronounced "chalk". We laughed about that our whole trip.
ReplyDeleteLovely whitewashed house? shop?
The house is weavers shop with a large loom built into an extension on the back. The weaver made the scarves in the pictures above,
ReplyDeleteThe potato field was her vegetable garden next to the house. It also contained cauliflower, green onions, broccoli, and and some lettuces.
ReplyDeleteWe walked into her cottage, and immediately saw something familiar. The loom shown in the picture holds a pattern of weaving identical to a very old blanket passed down from my father's supposedly Scottish side of the family. Family lore says it was made from sheep's wool shorn and spun by the family of my 4GGrandfather, and then woven on the family loom (in the US, Indiana), between 1750 and 1815 or so.
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