School: Lisdoonan

Location:
Lisdoonan, Co. Monaghan
Teacher:
S. Mac an Éanaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0930, Page 290

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    days gone by.
    On certain days there are special clothes worn for example, black clothes at a funeral, blue at a wedding and bright clothes during the summer.
    The tailor uses a lot of tools at his trade such as a scissors, needles, reels, a thimble, a tape line, a sewing machine, and Labord for pressing. He has a very large table for cutting out and pressing on and he uses very large smoothing iron called a tailor's goose.
    Broad cloth was cloth of double width and it used to be called the fifty-four inch cloth.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.