School: Colehill (C.), Mullingar (roll number 14673)
- Location:
- Colehill, Co. Longford
- Teacher: Kathleen Morris
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0750, Page 160
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- (continued from previous page)it goes on to the pern. When the pern is full you remove it You next wind this on to the reel. You hold the pern in left hand and twist round reel with right hand. The reel tells when it comes to a cut Tweleve cuts is a hark. This is yarn. There was a yarn fair held in Ardagh on the sixth of April each year The harks are boiled Weeds were cut burned and the ashes that remained were wet with water and made into balls culled ash balls and these were boiled with the yarn to make it white Then you loosen out the harks and you have a pole about three feet long.at each end of the yarn called yarn wattles It is dried and bleached thus and made roady for the weaver spinning wool. The spinning wheel was placed on the middle of the flax. The woman of the house would get cards and tease the wool and she would tease it out very fine Each time(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Gertie Duff
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 13
- Informant
- Mrs Gill
- Relation
- Grandparent
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 69
- Address
- Killinbore, Co. Longford
