School: Carrowcrin (roll number 16088)
- Location:
- Carrowcrin, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Mrs Devine
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- (continued from previous page)the needle through the cloth. The tailor's thimble is not like an ordinary person's thimble. There is a hole in the bottom of it and he pushes the needle through the cloth with the side of it. When he has the suit made he gets a board and an iron and irons each seam with his iron.
There are shirts made in every home. The cloth that is used for making shirts is cotton and flannelette. There are socks and stockings knitted in every home. The thread is not spun in the homes now. I know only one spinning wheel in my district. The (our) owner of it is Mary Mc Cormack. Long ago the sheep were washed in the ricer and after a few days when the wool was dry on them it was shorn off. Then it was washed again and put out on a hedge to dry. When it was dry the women went out and spun it into big balls of thread. It was coarse thread and it knitted very heavy socks, but they wore well.
There are different sorts of clothes worn at the death of a relative and at marriages There are black clothes worn at the death of a relative white at marriages.
