School: Meelick (B.)
- Location:
- Meelick, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Eoghan Ó Néill
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- (continued from previous page)In later times people dropped the carding & rolling at home & got it done for a triple at a local mill. (Flynn's of Sixmilebridge)
- To Spin wool the spinner stood and moved back as the thread got long. She worked the wheel with her right hand + held the roll in her left. She never could move farther out than would leave her within reach of the wheel. That one journey would spin a "roll" of thread. She would then drop end of thread on ground & go back on same thread a second time to spin it tighter. She would then reverse the wheel & this would wind the thread on the spindle, which had a slight groove on its end to prevent thread from slipping off(continues on next page)
