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1. Clothes Made Locally (continued)

   

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   pattern of his daughter's cap he took to Corlai instead of the recippt. There are a few spinning wheels in the country side still. There are no shirts manufactured at home now-a-days, but this was not so in former times as they made some fine linen shirts. sheets, and table-cloths. When the flax was pulled it was put into a pond for about a week. It was then taken out and dried and then all the women used to get together and pound it with what they called a tuairgín. This was done in the night and it was styled camp-night. They then hackled it with a hackle or sioscal after this it was tlúed with a tlú, it was then spun into thread with a flax wheel and it was then woven into grand linen-cloth.

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   Topics

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

   Languages

   Irish

   English

   Collector

   Mary Teresa Hurley

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Derrynacaheragh, Co. Cork

   Informant

   Mr Patrick Hurley

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Derrynacaheragh, Co. Cork

   Informant

   Mrs Hurley

   Gender

   Female

   Age

   74

   Address

   Shiplough, Co. Cork