My father's family were hand loom weavers in the linen trade in the west riding of Yorkshire, but were blacklisted for agitating for a living wage. The daughters continued weaving, first on hand loom - presumably as there was one available, using cotton, and then in a factory.
I did not know that - though my father was a union man through and through, but it seems that there was something in the DNA.

The sons went into engineering, and I am quite good with anything mechanical, but I started off with knitting machines, I spin and I have a small loom - just a toy really, but it seem to feed a need - the stocking frame is actually a knitting machine, by the way.
If you seek out a song called 'Poverty poverty knock' the rhythm of the tune is supposed to imitate the clickerty clackerty of the flying shuttle looms. I am sure YouTube can supply several versions.

Skills such as dyeing and making yarn and fabrics are pretty archaic these days. I am a bit an anachronism in that I have many skills not at all usual these days - going right back to working flint, or at least, when I found I had left part of my kitchen equipment in the car and had set up my camp at an English civil war event I cracked off some useful sharp edges which enabled the slicing of meat and veges for dinner that day.

One of my exploits was involvement in making the biggest blanket in the world - the blankets were all 4ft by 6ft and sewn together, either knitted or crochet, so once we got the record they were all taken apart and distributed.
One of the Oxfam people told the story of a woman who's village was attacked and she fled naked into the bush with her two children and an Oxfam blanket. Next day she went back and found everything burnt, but there was a water container, a calabash, overlooked by the raiders - so she tied up the blanket so she could carry one child on her back and the other child and the calabash supported under her arms and walked for three days to find help. Without the blanket they would not have survived as she could not have carried children and water that distance without it.

Anne the Pleater