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Atmospheric cottage and hands-on museum where the traditional weaver’s craft comes to life
Step back in time to when Kilbarchan was at the heart of a thriving textile industry.
Experience what it was like to live in this atmospheric cottage over 200 years ago.
See the last working handloom in the village.
Look out for plants that were once used to make fabric dyes in the pretty cottage garden.
At this traditional Kilbarchan weaver’s cottage we’ll transport you back to a time when hand-woven textiles were the pride of Scotland’s weaving industry.
Weaver’s Cottage authentically re-creates a typical handloom weaver’s living and working conditions. Low ceiling beams and period furniture help give insight into life before the Industrial Revolution.
Today, the weavers specialise in making tartan on a 200-year-old loom.
The property has an attractive garden, where traditional dye plants, including woad and madder, and a wide range of cottage garden plants are grown.
Research undertaken by Jenny MacLeod, a PhD researcher from the University of Glasgow, has revealed new insights into the townscapes in the Weaver’s Cottage art collection.
