weaving homespun

14 (a) uvedèmo pa àjde če tɤčèmo a no napredèmo pàk stàrete ženè napredù

We thread it, and then we’ll weave. And then we spin again. The old women spin

15 (a) ot štìmɤt tòj štòto smo vadìle osnòvutu za osnòvu da vìemo

the woof thread. The thread that we got for the warp is [what] we wind

16 (a) na krosnòto a tòj pɤk stìm ga zovèmo sìtnoto

on the beam, but “woof thread” is what we call the tiny stuff

17 (a) onò pa za potkàvu za klàšn’ete da pretɤčèmo

what [we use] for the woof [for when] we weave the homespun.

18 (a) pa tegà àjde istɤčèmo ga ò iskàle smo klàšn’e

And then we weave it all up. Ah, now we’ve woven the homespun!

16 (b) təkɤ̀t dumàšnu plətnò

They weave homemade fabric.

137 (a) pu č’itìrəsi pu pedes’è m’ètrə səm istkàvələ dumàšnə həbɤ̀ č’ɤ̀rnə

[In my time] I would weave forty or fifty meters of coarse black homespun at a time

177 (a) i istəč’èš’ si əbìte b’àlətə č’ɤ̀rnətə turbìte

And you weave up black and white coarse homespun [for] bags

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