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   and other material was made out of it.
   There were woollen weavers, and linen weavers.
   The hacklers went about from place to place, and brought the hackles with them.
   The weavers in this district were:-
   Phil Droogan Lagravagra
   McManus Gorgesh
   Tom McKenna Drumbrocas.
   The weavers were scarce and important
   The linen shirts, towels, and sheets were very coarse, and hard to bleach, but one of them would last you twenty years. I saw a sheet, pillow cover and towel, made by hand, of Irish linen, and they are over seventy years old. They are as good as the first day
   The wool had to be carded, and spun, and rolled on a reel, to make it into hanks.
   It was then sent to the weaver. The men who had the looms could weave it into frieze, blankets. If it was was raining for a week, not a drop would go through a frieze coat. The women wore home spuns too, which they coloured themselves with the bark of oak, and with logwood.
   You could never wear them out.
   There are lots of droggit quilts-Droggit was a red colour. This colour was

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   Topics

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

   Language

   English

   Informant

   Pat Mc Govern

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Drumbar, Co. Cavan