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Implements for linen making. Zeanuri (Bizkaia), 1931. Felipe Manterola Collection. Labayru Fundazioa Photographic Archive.
Subsequent chores required to extract the fibre from the flax plant by hand and traditionally process it to be spun into linen were undertaken during the autumn.
Beating it, mazoz jo
Once retted and dried, the bundles of straw were crushed with mallets by one, two or even three beaters, their beating so becoming all the more effective and bearable. A stone called liho-harria would be expressly used for the said task in many houses. (more…)
Spinning for yarn. Carranza, 1986. Miguel Sabino Díaz.
Until well into the 1960s it was customary for local shepherds to keep a few shorn fleeces, or mantas, from the sheep for their own use in the farm. The wool from the fleeces was used as mattress filling and for spinning it into yarn and knitting yarn into clothing, mostly socks, laces for abarcas —rustic leather lace-up shoes— and waistcoats. (more…)
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