Videos of Irish Farming Life

I've just stumbled across an absolutely brilliant Facebook page, entitled Videos of Irish Farming Life, available at https://www.facebook.com/Irishfarmingvideos. It carries videos demonstrating traditional farming techniques in Ireland, as recorded by John Thompson in Garvagh, which can also be purchased on DVD from www.thompsontrading.co.uk/farming.

I've learned more about flax scutching (part of the linen manufacturing process) in five minutes from this site than I have from years of reading about it! Well worth subscribing to.

Chris

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West Yorkshire Archives textile guide

West Yorkshire Archives (www.archives.wyjs.org.uk) has created a topic guide to textiles archives which it holds in its possession. The guide can be accessed at http://wyorksarchivestreasures.weebly.com/uploads/8/5/9/7/8597192/textiles_topic_guide.pdf

(With thanks to @wyorksarchives via Twitter)

Chris