School: Ednacarnon (roll number 3523)
- Location:
- Éadan an Charnáin Theas, Co. Dhún na nGall
- Teacher: Máire, Bean Staráid
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- XML “Old Crafts - Dyeing”
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- Eliza Elliott
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Rathdonnell, Co. Dhún na nGall
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- Mrs W. Elliott
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 54
- Address
- Rathdonnell, Co. Dhún na nGall
- Spinning and weaving used to be greatly carried on in this district. First the people teased the wool, next they put butter on it. After that they carded it with "cards". They they spun it with a spinning wheel. Then they made "cuts" out of the thread on a reel. Then they wove it with a hand-loom.
- After the people spun the wool, then they dyed it. They dyed the thread, called the 'Warp," a green colour with heather, And the "Woof" a light-brown colour with stuff which grows on rocks called "cruttle". These two threads when woven together made(continues on next page)
