Casgliadau Arlein

Petticoat made from foru pieces (front and back panel and two side panels) of black tabby woven wool (black warps / green-brown wefts) with light blue wool stripes (woven as a 3/1 twill). 3cm wide horizontal tuck c. 10cm above hem; hem is bound with narrow black velvet strip (0.5cm showing on front). 8.5cm wide strip of red cotton twill (in five sections of different widths) has been stitched round the inner side of the lower edge (above the velvet strip). The red strip is completed by a 61.5cm long section of fawn cotton twill fabric (selvage along lower edge). The red and fawn strips are stitched with running stitches along the top edge and overcast stitches along the bottom edge, using black thread. 12cm wide black cotton twill yoke along upper edge; yoke is made from four sections. Centre back slit (length=32cm) fastened with Ø=1.8cm horn? button and buttonhole fastening (lower edge of yoke) and with black tabby cotton tape ties at top (width = 0.6cm). 59cm long section of 0.8cm wide black cotton tape is knotted to the original tape (on proper left). To fasten, the ties need to be run around the waist. The two sections at either side of the centre back slit are fully lined with the same black cotton twill fabric. The other two sections are only lined along the upper edge (width of 5cm). In addition, these two sections each have stitched diagonal pleats in order to taper towards the waist). The woollen skirt is pleated into the yoke (pleats are folded towards back, i.e. changing direction at centre front), which is stitched with hand-stitched running stitches while the upper edge of the wool is secured to the inside of the yoke with overcast stitches. There are three rectangular patches of the same blue-striped wool fabric which have been used as overlays to repair holes and tears on the petticoat (dimensions of patches: 7.5 x 7cm, 13 x 22cm and 42.5 x 30cm).