Irish clothing in bygone years
by Lexa Harpell
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Irish clothing in bygone years
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Lexa Harpell
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Early living in Ireland was harsh and simple. Hand woven vest hanging in window. Donegal, Ireland.
Light through the window aluminates woven cloth. Traditional Irish vest made from woven flax in Glencolmcille, Donegal Country. Linen is cloth woven from the vegetable flax fibre. Flax is the national emblem for Northern Ireland.
Flax was also grown in Northern France, Belguim and The Netherlands.
In 2015 I visited the towns of my ancestors in Ireland who were flax growers. Their farm allotments from the late 1600's in Fermanagh are still farmland, so I jumped the fence, laid down in the long wet grasses and made Angel Wings - absorbing their essence.
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March 14th, 2016
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