School: Gortaveha (roll number 16488)
- Location:
- Gortaveha, Co. Clare
- Teacher: P. Wiley
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- Long ago, they used to get black in the "Muingo" And mix it with branches of trees called rime, and colour frieze. They used to get moss around a stone to colour socks and wool. This they boiled with the wool.
- Collector
- Cáit Ní Chorra
- Gender
- Female
- They used to get the wool off the sheep. Then they used card it with hand cards and make it in to roll and then spin it. The old women used it all night in the comer spinning and knitting with the light of the fire and weave boreens. Then the used to sow flax and pull it with their hands then they steep it for these(continues on next page)