The ledra or sacred quilt is a ritual object made during the cold winter months after the harvest is over and a period of leisure has arisen. It is also a time of expectancy for the young brides of the past marriage season as well as a source of excited expectancy on the part of grandmothers and aunts who make these ledras as crib quilts for the babies that will arrive in the spring. The Ledra is usually about five feet in length and three & a half feet in width, but longer quilts are made which the older people use as a covering in their small string cots on which old ones are spread to form quilts in the almost hammocky shape which old string cots assume in the villages wherein people sleep on their side in a natal manner with legs bent.