School: Kildavin, Ferns
- Location:
- Kildavin, Co. Carlow
- Teacher: Tadhg de Brí
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0911, Page 092
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- In olden times there were no such thing as woollen factories for an Irish family. Every Irish family had a spinning wheel in their own home and spun their own thread. In the long winter nights, two or three girls or women assembled in a house. First, they had the wool from the sheep sent to the factories for the purpose and made into rolls. The factories were called country-weavers or looms.
The spinning-wheel was set up in the kitchen on a stool. The women would turn the wheel with one hand and hold the roll with the other hand. The roll was put on to what was called a spindle and attached to the wheel and when one roll was spun they would put on another. When they'd have what they called two Brooches spun, they'd twist the two together and wind them into a bottom. They'd twist the two threads back with the wheel and join them together and when they'd have that done it was ready for use.
- Collector
- Maggie Murphy
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Drumderry, Co. Wexford
- Informant
- Mrs Kehoe
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 45
- Occupation
- Farmer's wife
- Address
- Drumderry, Co. Wexford
