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Men's flannel drawers. Worn by a miner from Abertridwr, early 1900s.

Fine black and blue check. Machine stitched. Labelled: TOWY REAL WELSH CYMRU AM BYTH. Pattern is made with alternating sets of four blue and four black warps and wefts. The weave is made of single yarns, Z-twist. Centre front is open down to the crotch, apart from two white buttons at waist (one made from mother-of-pearl, the other made from bone). Silts at outer seam/lower hem of trousers. Cotton tape stitched to inside hem, extending into ties. Waistband of self fabric is 10cm wide at centre-front, tapering to a width of 5cm at centre-back. Pieced together from four sections of fabric. Woven label applied onto front of left waistband with a red lion in centre of a pale blue circle inscribed: TOWY REAL WELSH CYMRU AM BYTH with crossed leeks behind.