School: Moyne (C.) (roll number 13990)
- Location:
- An Mhaighean, Co. an Longfoirt
- Teacher: Bean Uí Tháibh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0766, Page 585
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- (continued from previous page)small rolls and then it was spun into round balls of yarn. Then there was a big wheel called a Reel for measuring the yarn. The ball of yarn was put in some vessel and there was a thread of the yarn put on the wheel.
The wheel was twisted round by the handle and when it went round a certain number of times it gave a shot which indicated they had wound a cut of yarn. When they had five cuts of yarn on the Reel it was called a Hank. Then it was ready for weaving. It was woven into Blankets or frieze. It was woven on a loom. There were two threads which was called the Warp and the Weft. The weaver had a Shuttle and when he pushed that he would put the ball of thread which he had in his hand from one side to the other which made it into a web of cloth which had to be sent afterwards to the mill to be thickened.
- Collector
- Bessie Reilly
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 13
- Address
- An Mhaighean, Co. an Longfoirt
- Informant
- Mrs Reilly
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 48
- Address
- An Mhaighean, Co. an Longfoirt
