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Thread #143902   Message #3351904
Posted By: Gutcher
17-May-12 - 04:09 AM
Thread Name: New website 150 stories of Scots songs
Subject: RE: New website 150 stories of Scots songs
The majority of the woven cloth would be used in a natural state ie. Hodden Gray.
Bracken which gives a yellow colour would, I imagine, be mostly used for womans clothing as in the old song "Saw Ye My Maggie" which gives at the start of the third verse "She"ll be aa clad in yalla" [yellow]
Joe.