machine-made vs. handmade

Bangejci 2

64 (a) sìčkutu gutòvo idì fəf məgəzìnə i še si kùpiš
Everything’s ready-made. You go to the store and buy yourself [everything].

Nasalevci 1

202 (a) i se sɤšìe na mašìnku i pòsle vèče se prài
and then sew it up on the machine, and then you make [the garment].

203 (GK) à na mašìnku na rùku
On a machine? Or by hand?

204 (a) àjde nàruku e ìma nèkoj nàruku
Ah, by hand! Well yes, some [do it] by hand.

205 (a) ama nèkoj si na mašìnu nòde
But some go and do it on a machine.

Srebŭrna 2

92 (c) às è às n’è às ə gu nəpràəm gu nòs’ә̟
Yes, I [did]. Well I didn’t make everything [myself]. I took it –

93 (c) ìməši nəl’ ìməš’ fàbrikə
there was this factory, you know –

95 (c) u grədɤ̀ dàəmi purɤ̀čkə əmə plàštəm gu
in town. We give them an order and pay for it

97 (c) t’è kət mi gu prərəbòt’ət amə i sn’e təkàli u s’èlu
after they make it up for me. But [yes], we did our own weaving in the village.

Stalevo 1

120 (a) nə nə žɨ̀ci i zə zəpàzvəš žìčkətə d’èt je ut kùp’enə pr’èždə
By the threads. You take a measure of a thread from factory-made yarn

121 (a) tò je pò mlògu d’è̝t je pr’è̝denu tò je s pò màlku
– there’s more of that kind, whereas the yarn spun [at home} – there’s less of that.

122 (GK) štòtu pò debèlo
Because it’s thicker.

123 (a) pò dib’èlu̥ pr’è̝dentȕ je pò dib’èlu tòj e pò màlku usnuvànu i
It’s thicker, the [homespun] yarn is thicker. There’s less of it in the warp.

Stalevo 4

40 (b) əmə d’ètu m’èlə nəl’ nəd’àvəhme enì təkìvə ìkəme hni mànti
but when she swept [in the house] – we put on these coveralls we call “coats”,

41 (b) kət segɛ̀šnit’ȅ ə nàšte b’àha tkàenu sàmu č’i n’è e kùp’enu
like the ones now except ours were hand-woven, not purchased.

Stančov Han 1

61 (a) kòjtu ìmә ufc’è pàk pridɤ̀t pàk si pridɤ̀t dàvәd gu
Those who have sheep still spin. They still spin. [Sometimes] they give it out

62 (a) i dә dә də gu pridɤ̀t ə nә fàbrikә әmә
for spinning to – to a factory, but [usually]

63 (a) pò ni gù әr’èsvәt pәk si gu nәprid’èš
they don’t like it as much so you spin it yourself anyway,

Stoilovo 1

30 (a) vɤ̀l’neni č’uràpi pl’èteni
Woolen socks, hand knitted.

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Recommended Model for Citations

Bulgarian Dialectology as Living Tradition [2016] (http://www.bulgariandialectology.org, visited on 1 March 2016)
Babjak 1: 13-15. In: Bulgarian Dialectology as Living Tradition [2016] (http://www.bulgariandialectology.org, visited on 1 March 2016)

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