Lúnasa marked the onset of August, autumn and the harvest season where the whole community helped with reaping the harvest. The cutting of the last sheaf, often known as the cailleach, was accompanied by a special ceremony.
This sheaf was often decorated and hung above the table at a celebratory harvest meal. In some areas men and women decorated pieces of straw to make ‘harvest knots’ to be exchanged as tokens of love and courtship at the harvest festival.
Thomas Doyle (Educator at the National Museum of Ireland – Country Life) will provide a detailed workshop using straw and ribbon to show the traditional knot weave.
This is a Creative Ireland funded event.
Heritage Week at Sligo County Library
Thomas Doyle Harvest Knot Making Workshop for Adults
Sligo Central Library
Friday 23rd of August
3.30pm – 4.30pm
Contact 0719111675/ sligolib@sligococo.ie to reserve a place