Postcards in Raphael Tuck's 'Oilette' series

Scottish

Life and Character

9.

Granny at her Wheel

Raphael Tuck  -  "Oilette  -  Scottish Life and Character Series"

Raphael Tuck Postcard  -   'Oilette', Scottish Life and Character series  -  Granny at Her Wheel

©  Reproduced with acknowledgement to Carol Stubbs

Granny at her Wheel

"The Scottish peasant woman is never idle, leisure moments seeming to horrify her industrious mind, and from early morn to dewy eve, from blooming youth to feeble old age, her fingers are never idle.

She is busy in her youth in 'providing' for her marriage, and afterwards in attending to the needs of her husband and her growing family.

In former years the clothing of the whole household was all homespun, hence the spinning wheel occupied much of her time."

 

 

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