[sionnsar]

Yes. Also called milling or fulling the tweed. It starts out with a very open weave and draws in as the fibers intertwine.

LoM is leading Alasdair Mhic (jazzed-up with instruments and pretty pictures of Scotland) and the modern An Toll Dubh (The Black Hole -- i.e. dungeon).

In the second video you'll see a picture of a waulking -- women seated around the table. The sound track doesn't bring out the song very well, but then it's all in Gaelic anyway. You can hear the refrain "Le eiginn ar-neiridh as ar suain..." (sounds like 'lay aching our nerry as our sue wine"):

It is with difficulty we arise from our sleep
It is with difficulty we arise from our sleep
The Gael in his bed
The Gael in his sleep It's about the Gael's loss of his land and his dying culture -- very powerful when juxtaposed with the pictures.

[Tax-chick]

We listened to some of those songs when I went to my weaving class in Columbia (MO). I had Anoreth full one of my pieces by stomping on it in the bathtub!