Saturday 27 July 2019

Busy Bee Series: Fulling Bee

This week our featured artifact is a photograph of a Fulling Bee

Glengarry Pioneer Museum Collection

During these bees Gaelic songs would be sung to keep the rhythm as participants grabbed and passed newly woven cloth along. Agitating the fiber of the wool with warm soapy water would felt a blanket. 

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