Candle-making soap-manufacture rope-making and barrel-making were old crafts carried on in the district and are now discontinued.
Some crafts that are carried on still are, basket-making forge-work, spinning, thatching, wheel-making, nail-making and burning of lime in kilns.
Candles were made by peeling rushes and dipping them in melted greese.
Baskets were made by peeling sally-rods and boiling them to make them pliable, after that they were woven into wicker work.
The clothes were dyed with hay and heather, the heather was boiled and then strained and the clothes were dyed in the water that remained, when the