IRELAND'S TRADITIONAL CRAFTS

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Contents

Location of Crafts

6

Leather

Map

7

Harnesses and saddles

149

Foreword

9

Pampooties

155

Introduction

10

Shoes

156

Bookbinding

158

Textiles Wool and flax Crios weaving Carpets Tailoring Patchwork Lace and Crochet Samplers

15 33 34 37 38 42 47

Metalwork Blacksmithing Carriage works Foundry works Tinsmithing Gold- and Silverwork Jewelry

163 174 177 178 181 192

Stonework Stonecutting and masonry Millstone dressing Slate

49 59 60

Ceramics Coarse ware Clay smoking pipes Fine ware

197 206 209

Dry-stone walling

63

Glassware

Woodwork Furniture

67

Crystal and studio glass Stained glass

215 222

Coopering

75

Calligraphy

Greenwood working

80

Illuminated manuscripts

227

Hurls

83

Sign writing

232

Wooden boats

85

Rural Life

Currachs Marching drums and Bodhráns Uilleann pipes

96 102 104

Candle making Fly tying Life and craft on a

237 240

Harps Violins

106 111

Co. Fermanagh farm

243

Willow, Rush and Straw

About the Contributors

250

Wickerwork

115

Places to Visit

251

Plaited rush and straw work

126

Further Reading

252

Mummers and mumming

130

Acknowledgments

253

Festival straw work

134

Index

254

Woven rushwork

136

Bee-skeps

138

Ropes

139

Thatching

140