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Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales
Horse's feed bag made from brown Hessian sacking material. Straps are missing (bag is incomplete).
Bag is made from single piece of fabric, hand-stitched together along the sides with large overcast stitches using two threads as one. Each of these threads is 3-ply, S-Twist, c. 0.2cm thick (threads are of the same bast fibre as the woven fabric). The top edges have a c. 1.5cm wide double turn-back (inwards) which is held in place with large machine-stitched running stitches using light brown cellulosic thread (stitches are a little over 0.5cm long: 5 stitches every 3cm; thread is 3-ply, S-twist). On each upper corner are remains of bast fibre thread that presumably would have extended into the straps fitting behind the horse's ears during use.
2/1 twill weave Hessian fabric: warps in the vertical direction (selvages at both sides edges, i.e. full width of fabric = 52cm). Two yarns used as one (each yarn is a Z-spun singles yarn); thickness of each yarn = c. 0.1cm. Wefts are thicker: up to c.0.3cm thick (also Z-spun singles yarns).
