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- Title
The Craft of Sprigging.
- Authors
MacAvin, Louise
- Abstract
This essay explores accounts of 'sprigging', a form of decorative embroidery, in the National Folklore Collection's 'Schools' Collection' and other sources. The Schools' Collection contains a vast amount of folklore and local traditions gathered by schoolchildren attending primary school in the late 1930s in the Republic of Ireland. Accounts of sprigging describe it as an industry which was carried out by women and girls (these referred to as 'spriggers'), involving very detailed embroidery, demanding high levels of skill. Sprigging was noted in different settings across eleven of the 26 counties involved in the schools' initiative, but appears to have died out as a practice in most counties, with the exception of some areas of County Donegal, by the end of the nineteenth century. Areas for further research are identified.
- Subjects
IRELAND; EMBROIDERY; FOLKLORE collecting; SCHOOL children; PRIMARY schools
- Publication
Béascna, 2022, Issue 12, p92
- ISSN
1649-2137
- Publication type
Article