 I may call it, of the luagh, or, 'walking of cloth', a substitute for the fulling mill: twelve or fourteen women, divided into two equal numbers, sit down on each side of a long board, ribbed lengthways, placing the cloth on it: first they begin to work...  Staffa and Iona described and illustrated - 116 ページStaffa 著 - 1850全文表示 - この書籍について
 | 1832 - 440 ページ
..." On my return I am entertained with a rehearsal, I may call it, of the luagh or walking of cloth. Twelve or fourteen women, divided .into two equal...numbers, sit down on each side of a long board, ribbed lengthwiee, placing the cloth upon it. First they begin to work it backwards and forwards with their... | |
 | Thomas Blount, William Carew Hazlitt - 1874 - 492 ページ
...singular customs : one is, of the Luaghadh, or walking of cloth, a substitute for the fulling-mill : twelve or fourteen women, divided into two equal numbers,...and forwards with their hands, singing at the same as at the Quern : when they have tired their hands, every female uses her feet for the same purpose,... | |
 | Thomas Blount, William Carew Hazlitt - 1874 - 512 ページ
...singular customs : one is, of the Luaghadh, or walking of cloth, a substitute for the fulling-mill : twelve or fourteen women, divided into two equal numbers,...and forwards with their hands, singing at the same as at the Quern : when they have tired their hands, every female uses her feet for the same purpose,... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1912 - 870 ページ
...' there is described the custom f Luaghadh, or walking of cloth, a substitute for the fulling-mill. Twelve or fourteen women, divided into two equal numbers,...forwards with their hands, singing at the same time, as at the quern ; when they have tired their hands every female uses her feet ; as by this time they... | |
 | Ephraim Lipson - 1921 - 298 ページ
...walking of cloth, a substitute pf for the fulling mill : twelve or fourteen women, divided into in equal numbers, sit down on each side of a long board...forwards with their hands, singing at the same time as at the Quern:2 when they have tired their hands, every female uses her feet for the same purpose,... | |
 | Jan Ling - 1997 - 268 ページ
...a rehearsal. I may call it. of the Luaghe or. -Milking of cloth, a substitute for the fulling-mill: twelve or fourteen women, divided into two equal numbers,...forwards with their hands, singing at the same time as the Quern: when they have tired their hands, every female uses her feet for the same purpose, and... | |
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