The production of cloth in Galicia has been of great importance at different times in our history, reaching its greatest splendour in the 17th and 18th centuries, although the artisan and domestic production of cloth continued until well into the 20th century. The need to supply families with cloth for the manufacture of a wide variety of products, especially in times of scarcity, such as the decades following the Spanish Civil War in 1936, was the main reason why the domestic production of cloth was resumed in many parts of Galicia, or intensified in those places where it had been maintained.

This is a fact that is confirmed by the interviews carried out in the field; the sowing of flax at home and the use of sheep's wool was the only way to meet each family's needs for fabrics to make bedclothes or clothing. In a large part of Galicia, this continued until the 1960s, although some tecedeiras continued to weave for a few more decades, mostly as a hobby, since the fabrics they produced had become obsolete and the hand-spun wool and linen yarns had been replaced by industrially produced yarns.