Weaver Gravestone Cargill Perthshire Scotland

Tour Scotland travel video of a Weaver, gravestone on ancestry visit to the cemetery in Cargill, Perthshire, Scotland. Weavers used the threads created by spinners to make a variety of fabrics and materials. Originally weavers worked from home, women and children worked in their own cottages, until the Industrial Revolution when big weaving sheds were set up with power looms. Weavers produced: quality tweeds in the Borders, cottons in the west, damask in Dunfermline, patterned shawls in Paisley and jute in Dundee.

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