Saturday, January 10, 2009

Waulking

It's very snowy outside today so I've been huddled indoors looking at knitting patterns available on the Internet. While doing so I came across this interesting video clip of a group of ladies waulking - or "hand finishing hand woven woolen cloth in the traditional way" while singing traditional, rhythmic songs.



Learn more at about waulking at this What is waulking? webpage.
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2 comments:

aromatic said...

Well you learn something new every day and I had never heard of this tradition. I would end up in a fit of giggles if I was sat around the table singing and slapping the wool onto the table....
On the serious side... it obviously works and I enjoyed finding out about this method of hand finishing wool, so thank you very much for this interesting post.
Love Jane xxxx

January 10, 2009 at 6:56 PM
ICQB said...

Hi Jane!

You made me giggle just now to think of a tableful of women 'passing the cloth' in a fit of giggles and trying to sing.

It's true, you never know what new thing you might learn each day. I usually learn lots of stuff, and then promptly forget it again : )

Take care!

ICQB (Linda)

January 10, 2009 at 9:22 PM

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