1. Raw wool |
[black ink] |
rùsg-cloimh | fleece of wool shorn off living sheep. |
marbh'an'thach, mar'an-ach, marachloimh | wool off the skin of dead animal. |
toinntean cloimh | tufts of wool. |
toban cloimh | local term [for tufts of wool]. “Cruinnich gach toban”. |
[blue ink] |
ath-chloimh | [wool] next to skin of sheep. |
2. Oil or grease put on wool before carding |
[black ink] |
ola éisg | oil or grease. |
ola na birich | dog fish [oil]. |
armadh, aramadh | process of greasing wool. |
smeùradh | Archangel tar; pine tar; [Arnol?] coal tar. |
3. Carding |
círeadh na cloimh | teasing of wool. The wool was pulled apart by hand and all foreign undesirable matter, all foreign bodies (heather, rushes, etc.) picked out. |
[blue ink] |
1. nithe na cloimh | |
2. cireadh na cloimh | |
3. armadh na cloimh | |
[black ink] |
4. cardadh | carding. |
[blue ink] |
5. peard | long roll of wool as it leaves the cards. |
[black ink] |
sniomh | |
smeùradh | tarring the sheep. |
crotal | |
4. Spinning |
[blue ink] |
sniomh | [spinning.] |
5. Parts of the spinning wheel |
[blue ink] |
maighdeanan | |
reathan | |
[black ink] |
maide siubhail | |
pyearne | |
cioch na cuibhle | hub of wheel. |
bann beag | |
bann mor | |
tèk | |
6. Yarn and associated apparatus |
[note] | [NOTES: some words in this section quoted more than once most probably because they were provided by different informants, cf. the two colours of ink.] |
[blue ink] |
cnocan | ball of yarn? |
[black ink] |
iarna | hank. |
crois-iarna | device for making hanks of yarn from balls. |
[blue ink] |
liaghra ? | 1. revolving on floor, 4 arms with holes (2 or more) and pegs on which hank was spread revolving to make a ball for the warping frame. 2. hand ‘crois-iarna’ shape, 24 inches with a cross stick at either end (12 inches long) set at opposite angles; purpose to make hank of the yarn on the pearna (reel) of spinning [wheel?]. [NOTES: it is not clear if the above explanation refers to ‘liaghra’ (blue ink) or ‘crois-iarna’ (black ink) or both.] |
[black ink] |
dealgan | spindle. |
cuigeal | distaff. |
[blue ink] |
koo gyal | for white dog, pronounced too fast to be recognisable as a white dog. |
crois iarna | held in the hand: hand at centre of shaft. Function: to make hanks from balls of wool. |
liaghra | revolving on floor; picture in Dwelly’s Dictionary. Function: to make balls from hanks. |
dealgan | (pronounced in three syllables: Dya'-la-gan.) [black ink] Cuigeal agus dealgan: deanamh snàth bho thùs, gus an tainig a chu[idheall?] sniomh. |
crois iarna | hand hank making. |
7. Dyeing |
[blue ink] |
crotal | dath ruadh trom dark |
sealbhag | ruadh dath ruadh light |
dock | riamhach root |
[note] | [NOTES: it is not clear what the connection between the words is. I have typed them out the way they appear in the questionnaire. Also: ‘trom’, ‘ruadh’ after ‘sealbhag’, ‘riamhach’ and ‘root’ are all in black ink.] |
[black ink] |
guriman | indigo dye, bought. |
[blue ink] |
maighstir, mùin | for washing. |
prais dhath | [black ink] 3 legged pot, large, larger, very large. (Two monsters in Lemreway.) |
8. Washing after dyeing |
9. Warping |
[black ink] |
beart dheilbh | warping frame. |
10. Beaming and tying |
11. Weaving |
12. Parts of the weaving loom |
13. Finishing |