A visit to DC Dalgliesh

[Alan H]

You're welcome, gents. I knew a lot of you lads would love to see this!

craigdubh, the odds are good that the woman in the pictures is the actual lass who will lay out the warp threads, draw them on the cassette, and thread the loom for your order. There are 3-4 employees at the mill, but I believe she is the most experienced.

There is actually an even older way of aligning theads for the warp...old and simple, with just a wooden framework and dowels. They still have that setup, there at DC Dalgliesh, and I saw the same setup at Knockando, where it's used for blankets and plain-weave cloth. It won't do for production of large quantities of tartan cloth, but it can still be done for shorter runs. I believe that they'll use the racks and wheels and the single-width cassette for all the runs nowadays, though, and personally I'd prefer it that way as it's almost certainly more accurate.