quest for crofter tartan loom reenactment

[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