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Wooden Patten Overshoe Ffollach Pren

Welshpool
Powys
Wales Y Trallwng
Powys
Cymru

Single patten or overshoe. Made of wood, with a leather strap and iron ring. Early 19th century. Found in a cottage next to the Old Post Office, Guilsfield. The wooden sole has broken. 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 the streets would have been filled with horses and other animals making them very dirty and mucky. 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 warm 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. Ffollach unigol. Gwnaethpwyd o bren gyda strap lledr a chylch haearn. O ddechrau’r 19eg ganrif. Fe’i ddarganfuwyd mewn bwthyn ger yr Hen Swyddfa Bost, Cegidfa. Mae’r gwadn pren wedi torri. Gwisgwyd y rhain 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.

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