Tour Scotland short 4K travel video clip, with Scottish music, of a weaver at a hand loom gravestone in a graveyard burial ground on ancestry, genealogy, family history visit to Angus, Britain, United Kingdom. It is doubtless because the soil of Angus was so well suited for growing flax that, in days when spinners and weavers depended for their raw material on home production, the industry should have established itself in this district. In the closing decades of the eighteenth and in the opening ones of the nineteenth century, the work was largely carried on in rural districts, the burghs then serving as markets for what was spun and woven in country hamlets. At that time such parishes as Barry, Monifieth, Coupar-Angus, Dunnichen, Kirkden, Logie-Pert, Glamis, Kinnettles, Mains, Menmuir, and Stracathro had scarcely a village where the inhabitants were not mainly weavers. The small farmer grew the flax, his wife spun and weaved it, and in Winter, when outdoor work did not demand his energies, the farmer himself turned weaver. There was of course much spinning and weaving in the towns too; but country people brought their yarns and their woven goods to the nearest town; Dundee, Kirriemuir, Forfar, Arbroath, Brechin, or Montrose, and sold them in open market. The time came when every piece of cloth was inspected and stamped by regular officials before it could be produced in the markets, a practice which enhanced the value and the reputation of the productions. Of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day. Find things to see and do in Scotland where you are always welcome.
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