School: Benbawn
- Location:
- Binbane, Co. an Chabháin
- Teacher: M. Gillespie
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1019, Page 152
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- (continued from previous page)and tweeds are the cloths used for making suits. There are no sayings that I have ever heard off connected with tailors or tailoring. The implements used by a tailor are, scissors, a great heavy iron for pressing the cloth, needles, thread, sewing machines and a thimble. A tailor's thimble has not bottom and the tailor pushes the needle through the cloth with the side of the thimble.
Some people make shirts at home and some people buy them in ships. There are cotton shirts and flennelette shirts. There is a shirt factory at Rockorry, and they spin and weave shirt cloth there. The cloth is given out to the people of the district, and they make the shirts in their homes and sell them.
Socks and stockings are generally knitted at home. The thread is not spun at home. There are no spinning wheels in the district. When a person dies, the relations(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Minnie Moore
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Leaghin, Co. an Chabháin
