Waulking song

Verses from one song might appear in another, and at times the lead singer might improvise to include events or people known locally.

While fulling is a common practice across the world, it is only in Scotland that music became so strongly associated with it as to become an important cultural feature of the country.

[citation needed] During the Highland clearances, traditional methods of waulking spread with the Scottish diaspora.

As Claire Fraser travels the Mackenzie lands with her eventual husband Jamie's party to collect rents, she spends time with a group of women who are waulking wool.

When the midwives journey to the Outer Hebrides, one of their patients participates in waulking tweed, which is shown as a communal activity for the island's women.