School: Teamhair, Áth Treasna
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- Taur, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Dd. Ó Súillleabháin
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- Long ago the people dyed the cloth with the juice of plants. Log-wood was used to dye the cloth black. Copperas was used to dye the cloth brown. Sorrel was boiled with black-berries to dye the cloth black. The sorrel was boiled also with the red flower of fuschia to dye the cloth red. Sorrel is a plant that grows on the brow of ridges of potatoes.
- Long (a) ago people dyed the thread various colours, they made these dyes from plants which grew on the land. They made dyes from a plant called sorrel, this plant grows close(continues on next page)