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   house making the clothers and they did not stock the cloth. Cloth was woven long ago and the people wore frieze coats or "bréidín" coats and a tweed pants to the knee. There is a field in the district called the "bréidín" field and it is owned by a man named Mr Nunn. Flax was grown locally and it was woven also. The implements that the tailors have when they are working are a scissors, clothes iron, topless thimble, a measuring tape a sewing machine, a lapboard sometimes called a tailor's "Goose" which is used fro pressing the clothes and a flat piece of white chalk called pipe clay. Shirts

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   Topics

   1. objects
      1. clothing and accessories (~2,403)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Marie Redmond

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Ballycrane, Co. Wexford

   Informant

   Mr Frank Ryan

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   52

   Address

   Ballyregan or Fairyhill, Co. Wexford

   Informant

   Mr Nick Rossiter

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Ardcavan, Co. Wexford