quest for crofter tartan loom reenactment

[Pleater]

Although in England, mostly, the effects of the reduction in income/wages must have been country wide - look up Chartist riots.
My family involvement and expulsion in all that went on was in the 1830s. In the next county, the 1840s.

You might like John Kirkpatrick's 'On the road to freedom' - several versions on Youtube.

They asked for a living wage and got blacklisted, and the industries were moved to other areas and into factories, the hand looms were redundant.

The hand loom weavers were upper working class, their income was not rock bottom until the work was taken from them - their homes were often two stories with the upper one having windows!! There were even two story homes with workshops in the back, in the long thin 'burghs' which was how the medieval town centres were laid out.

Anne the Pleater

[NHhighlander]

Although in England, mostly, the effects of the reduction in income/wages must have been country wide - look up Chartist riots.


The hand loom weavers were upper working class, their income was not rock bottom until the work was taken from them - their homes were often two stories with the upper one having windows!! There were even two story homes with workshops in the back, in the long thin 'burghs' which was how the medieval town centres were laid out.

And the Clearances, of course! Which went on for a longer period. Thank you.

Hmm, my previous life (what I did in Texas before moving to NH) was as a papermaker, and those did make fortunes in old times (not me!), yet the workshops were crowded and unsanitary. I might be projecting. Of course the black-and-white images extant of the last surviving beart-mhor weavers make it all look more drab than reality... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ly-lFONTuGk

Yup, my grandad was doing peaches, in Uruguay, as a skilled painter of buildings. His specialty was faux wallpaper and trompe l'oeil. He even built his own house soon after he arrived. Not grand, as made out of shipping boxes, but much better than his options in the Old Country...

[Pleater]

And the Clearances, of course! Which went on for a longer period. Thank you.

Hmm, my previous life (what I did in Texas before moving to NH) was as a papermaker, and those did make fortunes in old times (not me!), yet the workshops were crowded and unsanitary. I might be projecting. Of course the black-and-white images extant of the last surviving beart-mhor weavers make it all look more drab than reality... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ly-lFONTuGk

Yup, my grandad was doing peaches, in Uruguay, as a skilled painter of buildings. His specialty was faux wallpaper and trompe l'oeil. He even built his own house soon after he arrived. Not grand, as made out of shipping boxes, but much better than his options in the Old Country...

My father's mother's family, the Wilsons were cleared off their land, they walked to the East coast and got a lift down to Yorkshire on a fishing boat. There were some strapping lads in the family - she was no lightweight, so I expect they worked their passage.

In the you tube recording the light from the big window might be making the inside seem more drab - and the weaving shed might have suffered from neglect without younger family members there to keep it up.

The places where there were old houses and work sheds can be seen long after all trace of the building is gone because there is a rectangle of slightly lower ground, where the housewife swept out the place day after day, year after year.

Anne the Pleater