Not really sure where to post this but this thread seems the most logical.

I’ve recently been given a copy of the inventory of a chief’s household furnishing and their value on his death in 1737. There is some fantastic stuff in the list and worth going through in detail but a cursory run through brought up the following interesting bits and pieces including:

• 21 yards coarse Dornich – apparently a thick cloth so named because it originally came from the Flemish town of Doornick.

• 2 small and 2 large (muckle?) spinning wheels.

• Ane old check reel – a cross between a muckle wheel and a yarn winder and was used for measuring yarn.

• 3 Heckles

• 3 pair old Currans and two Carrs – this is really interesting and the first 1st hand reference I’ve seen to currans that early. Not sure what Carrs were.

• A webb (24 yards) undressed (unfinished?) black cloth.

• A Ratine Coat – presumably plain as it’s not described as tartan.

• 5 yds tartan

• An broad sword shoulder belt and target – but no sword mentioned

• 2 tartan truss – what was a truss in this context and was it significant that they were tartan?

• A warping stick and two windls – a warping board and spindles?

• 5 woolen Combs – possibly combs for worsted yarn as opposed to carding boards for Saxony?

• A pair of garters

What’s interesting is the lack of general clothing and no mention of feileadh beag/kilt, plaid, trews, breeches, waistcoat, stockings etc. Obviously he would have been buried in something, clothes or a shift I wonder, but what about his other clothes? Were they passed on/down or handed out to the poor? Note also the use of the term tartan, which I assume to mean checked rather than plain, and not plaid or breacan.