School: Drumakill (roll number 6365)
- Location:
- Drumakill, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: Florence Harrison
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0943, Page 033
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- Long ago every household spun and wove what cloth they needed for clothes. Any they had made extra they carried on their backs in pack to sell in Newry and Armagh. The wool from the sheep was washed and carded. Then it was spun into yarn. The yarn was used for knitting stockings. Some of the yarn was woven into webs of coarse tweed.
- Collector
- Jim Patterson
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Mrs Chambers
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Drumleek South, Co. Monaghan
- The girls long ago did all the sewing with their hands. They made lovely patchwork quilts for wearing in their homes and all these were quilted, they were sewn diagonally from corner to corner in the running stitch and other rows of sewing were done parallel to this first until the other corners were reached. Each row was about two inches apart. Then the quilting was done from opposite corners and continued until the whole quilt was formed into diamonds by the rows of stitching.
- Collector
- Jim Patterson
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Mrs Chambers
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Drumleek South, Co. Monaghan
