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Patten Overshoe Ffollach
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Wales
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Cymru
Single patten or overshoe. Early 19th century. These were worn to keep the feet elevated from the mud and wet of the streets. Before the 20th century many streets did not have sewers and would have been filled with horses and other animals making them very dirty. If you were wearing expensive shoes you could protect them with overshoes. They were also worn by laundry maids to lift them above wet floors, at home to keep the feet wam above cold flagstone floors or by farmers working on muddy land. Pattens were regularly made up until being replaced by rubber wellington boots in the 1920s. This patten is made of wood which has been stained black, with a leather strap and toe and a curved iron ring. Ffollach neu esgid allanol unigol. O ddechrau’r 19eg ganrif. Gwisgwyd ffollachau er mwyn cadw’r traed yn uwch i ffwrdd o’r llaid a dŵr ar y strydoedd. Cyn yr 20fed ganrif, nid oedd ceuffosydd ar lawer o strydoedd, a byddai ceffylau ac anifeiliaid eraill yn eu gwneud yn fudr ac yn frwnt iawn. Os oeddech chi’n gwisgo esgidiau drud, gellir eu diogelu trwy wisgo ffollachau. Hefyd byddai morwynion y golchdy’n eu gwisgo i’w codi uwchben lloriau gwlyb, yn y cartref i gadw traed yn gynnes ar gerrig llorio oer, neu gan ffermwyr wrth weithio ar dir mwdlyd. Gwnaethpwyd ffollachau’n rheolaidd nes dyfodiad esgidiau glaw rwber yn y 1920au. Pren yw deunydd y ffollach hwn, a liwiwyd yn ddu, gyda strap lledr a chylch haearn crwn ar gyfer bysedd y traed.
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