Gather moss off the rocks or trees......
INFORMANT: Annie Kelly, Address, Prison North, Co. Mayo
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There is a grey moss which grows on trees and rocks which makes a good dye for wool.
INFORMANT Mrs Kearns, Age; 40, Carra, Co. Mayo
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The people then brought it to a little kiln on their farms and dried it there. It was then beatled with a beatle (a beatle resembled a cricket bat I am informed). It was then scutched with a scutcher ( a scutcher is also made of timber but is much lighter than the beatle, it is almost as thin as a knife).
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