School: Lacken
- Location:
- Lackanduff, Co. an Chabháin
- Teacher: P. Colreavy
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0977, Page 199
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Lacken
- XML Page 199
- XML “Local Clothes-Making”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- Long ago the clothes were very different to the present day. There were no drapery shops, the people made material. They made serge from wool, and linen from flax. Each home had a spinning wheel, and they would spin the wool in hanks. Hand weaving was a trade. The weavers would go round to the houses, and stop for what ever time they would be employed in the houses. They used oak-bark for thickning the cloth after it would be weaved. The would boil oak-bark in water, and steep the cloth, and put it through a beetling-mill, then they would dye it. They would make the dye from the roots of some plants, then they would press it, and it was fit for the tailor to make it into suits. They would make linen from flax. Every farmer would grow flax, when it would be ripe they would it, and make it into sheaves, then they would steep it in a pool of water, until it ferments, then(continues on next page)
- Collector
- May O' Dowd
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Lackanclare, Co. an Chabháin
