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Mender

Women mended the cloth , either ‘in the grease’, or in the ‘say’. The cloth was gradually pulled over a bar with the light behind it so that imperfections showed up. Any missing threads were filled in by hand, the women using a small needle and matching yarn. This job was never mechanised.