School: Kilmore (roll number 13010)
- Location:
- Kilmore, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Eilís, Bean Uí Cheallaigh
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Quilts
“Patch work quilts were made in every house they were made by the women...”
Patch work quilts were made in every house they were made by the women on a quilting frame. All pieces of cloth left over in the house were put by. when the quilt was being made the pieces were got and sewed together generally red flannel and black then lined with a worn blanket or a linen sheet on the quilting frame. Sometimes the cotton pieces were worked in a design perhaps in the middle a black or red diamond cloth on a white ground. Sometimes there were patches each side of the linen quilts so that both sides could be left up. I saw a red quilt in Mrs McPadden's Derrinvona a black design on the red cloth with red thread sewing like this:-
- Get two and a half yds of red cotton usually and two and a half yds of black. Each piece must be double width. You must have a quilting frame. The posts of the frame is about six foot high. The cloth is caught on to the frame by means of pegs. Each post of the frame must be about three feet apart. The thread is woven(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Tessie Mc Loughlin
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Killadiskert, Co. Leitrim
- Informant
- Mrs Mc Loughlin
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 50
- Address
- Killadiskert, Co. Leitrim
