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[searbh]
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Cho searbh, mar sùgh nan sealbhag.
Origin: [Lewis, Uig an Iar]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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[searbh]
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Cho searbh, mar sùgh nan sealbhag.
Origin: [Lewis, Uig an Iar]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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buinteagan
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Quotation: b(p)uinteagan. Notes: leaf of sealbhag.
Location: North Uist
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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ceangal
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Quotation: (Auntie Bella – Keose) “Bhiodh sùgh freumhaichean nan sealbhag (sorrel) aca a’ ceangal a’ ghuirmein ris a’ chloimh.” Notes: ‘fixing (of dyes)’. By contrast, crotal had its own fixing agent. This precise sense not in Dw.
Location: Lewis
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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curan-fiathaich
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if you haven’t any word or meaning for this term, with which I am not certain, perhaps you will take it as ‘roots of Rhubarb and Docken’. There is Sealbhag, but I heard this term also used (old form?). I haven’t consulted documents, it was a word I once heard years back.
Location: Na Hearadh, Scalpaigh [Harris, Scalpay]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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puinneag
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[pũ̜nʹɑɡ] Notes: a small type of “sealbhag” found growing among potatoes.
Location: Skye, Breakish
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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sealbhag
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a root used for dyeing wool. Found on machair land.
Location: South Uist, Milton
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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sealbhag
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ruadh dath ruadh light
Location: [Lewis], Arnol, Bragar and Uigen
Category: Obair na Clòimhe / Wool-Working
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sealbhag
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a ‘binder’ used in dyeing wool and made of the roots of the ‘cuiseag’.
Location: Harris, Ardhasaig
Category: Obair na Clòimhe / Wool-Working
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sealbhag
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Notes: when dyeing with “guirmean” it was put in with the urine and left with the wool in a tub for a few days. Then the “sealbhag” was gathered, boiled and the resulting liquid put into the tub. This made a fast dye. (Left for a day or two.)
Location: Harris
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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sealbhag
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sorrel, for darkening colours.
Location: [Harris], Leverburgh, Kintulavaig
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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sealbhag
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Note: sorrel.
Location: Lewis, Uig, Crowlista
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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sealbhag
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Note: also used for sorrel.
Location: [Lewis], South Lochs, Caversta
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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sealbhag
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sorrel. Found in old lazy beds. Prevented the dye from running in material.
Location: South Uist, Iochdar
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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sealbhag
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sorrel.
Location: South Uist, South Lochboisdale
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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sealbhag
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a process which prevented colours running into each other when dyeing. Urine was collected and boiled with grass roots. Cloth was then steeped in this.
Location: South Uist, South Boisdale
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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sealbhag
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sorrel. Used for dyeing wool.
Location: Harris, Scalpay
Category: Blàthan-Leighis / Medicinal Plants
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sealbhag
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sorrel (the roots were boiled).
Origin: [Arran]
Category: Obair na Clòimhe / Wool-Working
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sealbhag [ʃɑɫɑvɑɡ]
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Notes: A weed growing among potatoes. Red seed. Long root.
Location: Ross-shire, Achiltibuie
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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sealbhag-chluasag
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Note: type of sorrel.
Origin: Carloway, Doune
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
