Cassie, for carrying peats

A cassie was a basket for carrying peats. This woven heather example has a band of coir yarn spliced into the rim. Coir is the prepared fibre of coconut husks.

Heather cassie, roughly circular at the mouth and with a band of coir yarn spliced into the rim

Peat, turf and brushwood were the only fuels for the fire, except where there were local outcrops of coal. Of these, peat was the most important. In the Highlands and Islands, where it is abundant, it is still cut and dried for use at home.

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