Scoil: Clochar na Trócaire, An Uaimh (uimhir rolla 16100)

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1. Clothes Made Locally (ar lean)

   

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   get measured. Long ago the tailors used to go to the person's house. Some of the tailors in this districts stock the cloth, which is woven in Claytons factory.
   Some of the women who have come from Connamara to live in Meath spin their own cloth. There are a couple of sayings connected with the tailor such as

   "A long thread is the sign of a lazy" tailor

   "A stitch in time saves nine."

   "The tailor, the tailor, he sits like a Turk,
   If he sat like a christian
   He never could work"

   Another one is:-
   "The tailor possesses a goose I am told
   Which seldom if ever lays eggs that are gold"

   The tailors use, needles thread, sewing-machines, goose for ironing, scissors, tape for measuring the person, chalk for marking the maaterial, and oil for the machines. The tailor has to use different sizes of needles thick ones for coarse material and fine ones for fine material. All kinds of bright coloured clothes are worn at weddings, black clothes are a

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