School: Valleymount
- Location:
- Valleymount, Co. Wicklow
- Teacher: Dll. Ó Cochláin
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- (continued from previous page)and then greased with drying-oil. It was then carded with cards for the purpose.
These cards were similar to two pieces of square wood with two handles and covered all over with wire pegs.
After the wool was carded it was put on the spinning wheel and spun into yarn.
Then it was dyed according to the colour the person needed, and allowed to dry. After it had dried it was ready for knitting purposes, such as socks, jumpers, gloves etc.
This industry of spinning wool in this locality has now died out. - You are not logged in, but you are welcome to contribute a transcription anonymously. In this case, your IP address will be stored in the interest of quality control.By clicking the save button you agree that your contribution will be available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License and that a link to dúchas.ie is sufficient as attribution.
- Collector
- May Quinn
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Valleymount, Co. Wicklow
- Informant
- Mr J. Quinn
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 53
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Valleymount, Co. Wicklow