School: Gleann an Dúin - Prison (roll number 17042)
- Location:
- Prison East, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Máire A. Ní Dhocartaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0095C, Page 09_002
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- There is a grey moss which grows on trees and rocks which makes a good dye for wool.
1. Scrape the full of two sweet cans of moss.
2 Put four sweet cans of water into a pot. Allow to boil.
3 Put in the moss and allow it to boil for 1 hour.
4 Put in articles which are to be coloured. Allow the dye to come to a boil again.
The clothes will then have a rich brown colour.
This industry is carried on(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Annie Kearns
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Manulla, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Mrs Kearns
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 40
- Address
- Balla, Co. Mayo
