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   There are six tailors in this district now. They generally work at home and when a person wants something made, he gets it made with the tailor at home. They nearly never keep cloth in the house for sale. If keeping cloth, they generally keep shop-cloth. Suits of cloth woven in this district are worn by very few if any in this area. The following are the tailors names, Paddy Glancy, Frosses, Dan Boyle, Lettermore, Con Mulreany, Keelogs, Frank Burke, Mill Town, and two others from Mountcharles.
   The following are the principal implements which a tailor uses: A sewing machine, a thimble, a needle, strong thread, chalk, an instrument for taking out the tacking threads, scissors, a goose, a tape, buttons and a book and pencil for marking down peoples measure.
   Some women make all the shirts worn in the house. There are different kinds of cloth used in these shirts such as: poplin, silk and fancy cotton. Long ago the women used to make all the shirts which the men used to wear. The men used to cultivate the ground and grow the flax. They then used to pull it and steep it in lint dams, and spread it in rows in a green field. They then used to stook it until it would season and dry it beside the fire. The women used to scutch it with a scutching handle and clove it with a clover. They then used to hackle it with a hackle and spin it with a spinning-wheel into thread. They then used to send it to a weaver to be woven on a loom. This cloth used to be used for table-cloths, sheets,

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   History Edit

   Topics

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

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Annie Teresa Boyle

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Drumlaghtafin, Co. Donegal

   Informant

   Anne Meehan

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   76

   Address

   Drumlaghtafin, Co. Donegal