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School: Clochar na Trócaire, An Uaimh (roll number 16100)

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Navan, Co. Meath
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An tSr. Concepta le Muire
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0700, Page 073

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0700, Page 073

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  3. XML “Clothes Made Locally”
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    material for making the suits. Both local and other Irish made tweeds are serges may be obtained there. All clothes are woven now in the woollen mills but some time ago the people used to weave and spin their own material.
    For some reason or another tailors were always considered to be very intelligent men. The reason is that the "journeymen tailors" were constantly travelling from place to place and so had an opportunity of hearing the lastest news debated in different parts of the country. The principal instruments used by a tailor are sewing machines, needles, scissors, thimble and goose or iron.
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    Topics
    1. objects
      1. clothing and accessories (~2,403)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Rose Barry
    Gender
    Female