School: Drummond
- Location:
- Drummin, Co. Carlow
- Teacher: P. Ó Murchadha
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- Girls and boys in their spare time make toys from walnuts and pieces of cloth. A doll is one toy I often made from a handkerchief I would leave the hankerchief down flat on a table. I would roll up the two long sides until they lay side by side. I would take the farther end of the two rolls and double them over, so that they almost touch the nearer end Then I would bend the nearer end just folded The handkerchief is pressed with one hand and with the other the two corners are pulled downwards. These stand for legs. Then I take out the other two corners and pull them out sideways. These are the two arms. I tie these two latter ends over the mass of handkerchief an inch from the end. I have then a hankerchief doll
- Collector
- Mary B. Irwin
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Bigwood, Co. Wexford
- Informant
- William Gladney
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Bigwood, Co. Wexford