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 amount of stockings, socks, gloves, flannel, cloth, baskets, and various forms of woodwork made in Welsh peasant homes and villages, was even within the present century enormous. In scores of Welsh country-sides you will find traces of a very complete rural economy. There was the factory, the pandy (fuller's house), the lliwy (dyer's house), the tannery, the shoemaker's house, the mill, the smithy, and the carpenter's shop. Oftentimes the tailor was itinerant. He would go from farm to farm to stay while he made suits for the various members of the family out of strong durable cloth made from the wool shepherded on their own hill, dressed on their own hearth, and worked through the gweithdy, lliwdy, and pandy, picturesquely built on the banks of a stream that wound its way through their own glen. The women, likewise, obtained almost all their most becoming and healthy and national dress through the industry of their own countryside. John Ruskin says that "national costume wisely adopted and consistently worn is not only desirable but necessary in