
19. Bed-cover. During this period it was not the custom to place the beds next to each other. The men, but usually the young lads did not even sleep in the house, rather in the stable among the hay.
Linen was mainly made at home in the era. Its main raw material was hemp, which was grown in Tihany in a vineyard called Kenderföldek along the southeast coast of the peninsula.
Hemp drying in front of the porch of a house in Szentgál. The villagers tried to avoid soaking hemp in living water (during which toxic substances were released from the plant), and in some places they even prohibited it, fearing the death of fish and the contamination of drinking water. That is why everyone dug small hemp-soaking pits on the border of the village or on their own plots. Recording by Aurél Vajkai from 1942. Dezső Laczkó Museum, Photographs of source value. 5739.
