Distinctive waulking songs of the Western Isles, featuring Mary Morrison, Calum Johnston, Kate Buchanan and Flora Boyd.

Fulling, milling, or waulking of home-made cloth for household use was carried out in Gaelic Scotland by pounding the material against a board or trampling it with the feet. The techniques are of great antiquity and were also used elsewhere, but they happened to survive in the Hebrides into the twentieth century. The process of waulking is called luadh ("loo-ugh") in Gaelic, and the songs of waulking are known as orain luaidh ("or-ine loo-ie"). Waulking songs are rhythmic songs that were made up to accompany the work and coordinate the beating.

The Scottish Tradition Series consists of a selection of material previously held in the archives of Edinburgh University's School of Scottish Studies and gathered by the School over a 40 year period.