The river Teifi coracle is still in use today for fishing and is the most rustic still surviving. The frame is of willow lathes made by hand from split poles and the gunwale is of hazel plait. Until at least the early seventeenth century the frame was covered in horse or ox hide then flannel was used until the nineteenth century also canvas, today Calico has replaced flannel and is still used. On the river Teifi flannel was obtained from the mills of Dre-Fach near to Newcastle Emlyn where once 40 such mills were clustered in an area known as little Huddersfield. Today one off the mills is the museum of the Welsh woolen industry where flannel is still woven on Victorian looms. It was estimated that in 1861 there were over 300 coracles on the Teifi but today there are just 12 pairs.

This is probably the earliest photograph of a Teifi Coracle dating from the 1850's, when hundreds of Coracles were on the River Teifi and there was not a requirement for them to display a number

This Coracle was made by
the late J C Thomas of Cenarth
about 35 years ago