Jackie Graham
Jackie belongs to: Tynemouth Volunteer Life Brigade
Jackie is married to Tynemouth Volunteer Life Brigade volunteer Dave Graham. She researched and made a gansey using traditional methods for her husband.
Jackie was interviewed by Carl Greenwood on 15 December 2005. The interview took place at the Interviewee's kitchen and lasted 12 minutes and 41 seconds.
Durability of the gansey
"It’s lasted really well"
It’s lasted really well. It doesn’t, I’ll be honest, it doesn’t get washed very often- you don’t like to wash them too often because obviously if you did you’d get all the oil out of wool on the first one, so you don’t like to wash it very often. But it doesn’t shrink. I mean, obviously, if you stuck it in a tumble drier, yes it would so you don’t put it in a tumble drier, you just wash it normally and then you either, you tend to try and dry it flat because if you don’t, because of the weight of it and you saw the length of it, it would just end up like a dress. It’s really, really, really long. It’s bad enough now because it is sort of like a length so that yes, it can be rolled up to protect the kidneys, because the first one is a working gansey.
Jackie has 9 memories in the memorynet:
Making ganseys for her husband Dave
Dave wearing the ganseyThis memory has these themes:
Clothing
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