School: Glentidaly (roll number 9983)
- Location:
- Glentidaly, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: M. M. Heron
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1087, Page 247
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- We have a spinning wheel and two cards at home but we do not use them now.
My Grandma used to spin and knit her own stockings from the wool she spun off the sheep's back and she also washed the wool and dried it.
Then she teased it with her fingers to prepare it for carding.
She then carded it with two cards and these two cards were made with wire teeth,
She put a little wool between these brush cards and worked these cards, one against the other four or five times or more, until the roll of wool was ready for spinning.
The wool was then let in nicely to the "heck" and spun on the "pirn."
They sent the wool to the weaver and it was woven into flannel.
The wheel was worked with the same motion as the sewing machine.
- Collector
- Isobel Anderson
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Glentidaly Glebe, Co. Donegal
