Bare Weaver gone walkabout
Bare weaver gone walkabout We recently headed down to Wales to meet our fleece growers Denis, Erin and the girls to take a look at what industrialisation did to our rural cottage workers. When we saw the scale of what could be done in the mills it was just incredible. The wool arrived from the farms in huge bales And it was fed by hand into their combing machine Where it is shredded, then combed and turned into roving. Then the spinning took place and this is the important bit -2000 of these- Were replaced with just one of these – And this was just one of six spinning machines that were operated in this mill alone. Just think about that 2000 small rural families losing their staple income in one fell swoop from just one machine and there were six of them just in this mill 12000 people put out of work so that rich industrialists could make vast profits – nothing has changed. So value what you do when you are spinnin...