Straw-Rope Underthatch in south-west Wales:a Note
| Autor: | Eurwyn Wiliam |
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| Rok vydání: | 1975 |
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| Zdroj: | Folk Life. 13:84-89 |
| ISSN: | 1759-670X 0430-8778 |
| DOI: | 10.1179/flk.1975.13.1.84 |
| Popis: | Several different kinds of underthatch were formerly in common use in Wales. The most frequently used was wattle, found from Anglesey to Carmarthenshire. Many descriptions indicate its use in the nineteenth century; in Carmarthenshire even the loft floors could be made of rough wattling, as a relieving officer writing about the Abernant-Tre-lech district in 1870 noted: ‘As a rule the labourers’ cottages are of one storey, with two low rooms on the ground floor, and a loft where the children sleep. The floor of the loft is made of wattle, like a wattled hurdle… ’ John Evans described the houses of Caernarfonshire thus in 1798: ‘The walls are about six feet high over which are raised maiden poles not even stripped of their bark for rafters, and pegged at top and bottom; a few smaller ones interwoven serve the place of laths; over these are placed heath or rushes, kept down by ropes of the latter, extending netwise over them’. In north Wales, the practice of providing a wattle underthatch continued e... |
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