Metadata
WORK ID: YFA 5400 (Master Record)
| Title | Year | Date |
| THE RUG MAKER | 1981 | 1981-01-01 |
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Details
Original Format: 16mm Colour: Colour Sound: Silent Duration: 5 mins 36 secs Credits: George Younger and David Dean Subject: Working Life |
| Summary Made by George Younger and David Dean, this film features Mrs. Margaret Beresford at Rowan Cottage, Bucken, in November, 1981 as she makes a rag rug. |
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Description
Made by George Younger and David Dean, this film features Mrs. Margaret Beresford at Rowan Cottage, Bucken, in November, 1981 as she makes a rag rug.
Titles: – The Rug Maker
with
Mrs Beresford of Buckden
by
George Younger & David Dean
The film begins showing a small petrol garage with an advertising sign for Wensleydale butter. Mrs Beresford goes inside her house. Seated in the kitchen, Mrs Beresford cuts up pieces of cloth into a plastic bag. She mixes them all up whilst having a...
Made by George Younger and David Dean, this film features Mrs. Margaret Beresford at Rowan Cottage, Bucken, in November, 1981 as she makes a rag rug.
Titles: – The Rug Maker
with
Mrs Beresford of Buckden
by
George Younger & David Dean
The film begins showing a small petrol garage with an advertising sign for Wensleydale butter. Mrs Beresford goes inside her house. Seated in the kitchen, Mrs Beresford cuts up pieces of cloth into a plastic bag. She mixes them all up whilst having a cigarette. She then stretches out a piece of plain cloth between wooden boards and inserts the small cut up pieces into it using a small wooden pointed tool. She pulls the pieces through underneath and cuts off the ends. Finally the rug is finished, and Mrs Beresford holds up the rug for the camera.
Title – the end 1981
Context
An old craft of making handmade rugs, in danger of dying out, is here demonstrated by a seasoned practitioner from Buckden, in Upper Wharfedale, in 1981. Filmed in real time, Mrs. Beresford expertly takes us from the cutting of the pieces through to the finished article, all while smoking a cigarette the whole time.
This film was made by George Younger and David Dean, and is one of a collection of films from Upper Wharfedale which feature local places and people, such as Jackie Beresford,...
An old craft of making handmade rugs, in danger of dying out, is here demonstrated by a seasoned practitioner from Buckden, in Upper Wharfedale, in 1981. Filmed in real time, Mrs. Beresford expertly takes us from the cutting of the pieces through to the finished article, all while smoking a cigarette the whole time.
This film was made by George Younger and David Dean, and is one of a collection of films from Upper Wharfedale which feature local places and people, such as Jackie Beresford, the accordion player. Mrs Margaret Beresford, who lived at Rowan Cottage in Buckden, wrote down a poem titled ‘Rug Maker’ in a North Yorkshire dialect which nicely accompanies the film. The first verse is, “Me oud rug is worn oot, anither al mak; al git cracking wit shears, rip snip intav sack; neu it takes me a week to cut enough clips; opnin seams an all, an cutting lang strips”. The second starts, “Thars a bit au Jacks coit, an Pete an Herbs trews.” |
