School: Westland (roll number 8428)
- Location:
- Donore, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Mrs E.J. Roberts
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- (continued from previous page)and the women used to go to him with big packs of yarn for him to weave.To make the Pepper and Salt tweed:
The wool was spun into yarn at home, brown sheeps' wool and white ones. The white yarn was stretched length ways across the weaver's frame and the brown wool was woven through it with the shuttle.
The work-men's wives were emploued in the bigger houses to do the spinning. The wool yarn was wound in cuts on the reel. There was twelve cuts in each ball, the balls had to be wound in a certain way or the weaver could not weave the yarn.
Then women had frocks called worsted frocks and they were coloured navy-blue, red and green; in this district there were no stripes, they were all plain colours. The wool had to be spun very fine. A man in Mullagh used to dye yarn.
- Informant
- Miss Mc Whirter
- Relation
- Relative (other than parent or grandparent)
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Drumlayne, Co. Meath
