School: Cluaineach (C.) (roll number 11774)
- Location:
- Coolrawer, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Bean Uí Chlaimhín
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0170, Page 0282
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- (continued from previous page)282Next the flax was scutched with a scutching handle and block. The former is a thin piece of oak timber with a handle and an edge as sharp as a chisel. THERE IS A DRAWING OF A SCUTCHING HANDLE INCLUDED HERE. The flax was scutched on a block after which it was hackled. The hackle is like a little four-legged stool with about a hundred spikes, as thin as knitting needles, six inches high standing up on the top. THERE IS A DRAWING OF A HACKLE INCLUDED HERE. Next the "shoves" or little flax-seeds were taken off or "cloved" with a clove. The clove is a round thin iron a foot long hinged on to another hollow iron six inches long.After having gone through these operations the flax looked like fine, silky, yellow hair, and was ready for spinning.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Vera M. Jennings
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cully, Co. Sligo
- Informant
- Mrs Thomas Walsh
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 70
- Address
- Cloonlaughil, Co. Sligo
