School: Drumakill (roll number 6365)
- Location:
- Drumakill, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: Florence Harrison
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- XML “Old Crafts - Spinning and Weaving”
- XML “Old Crafts - Quilting”
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- 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.