A clootie is
Scots for a rag or cloth. Clootie may refer to
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Clootie dumpling
A clootie dumpling is a traditional Scottish pudding made with flour, breadcrumbs, dried fruit ( currants, raisins, sultanas), suet, sugar and spices with some milk to bind it. Ingredients are mixed well into a dough, then wrapped up in a floure ...
, a spiced suet fruit pudding boiled in a cloth
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Clootie well
A clootie well is a holy well (or sacred Spring (hydrosphere), spring), almost always with a tree growing beside it, where small strips of cloth or ribbons are left as part of a healing ritual, usually by tying them to branches of the tree (cal ...
, a sacred well where strips of cloth are left for healing
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Clootie rug
A rag rug is a rug or mat made from rags. Small pieces of recycled fabric are either hooked into or poked through a hessian backing, or else the strips are braided or plaited together to make a mat. Other names for this kind of rug are derived fro ...
, a rag rug
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