The Weaver’s Cottage, Kilbarchan / by Cyril H. Rock (1900)
Rock, Cyril H, National Trust for Scotland · Edinburgh : National Trust for Scotland · leaf 13
being later added. By 1939 the populationhad risen to 2312. Weaving in Kilbarchan The history of weaving in Kilbarchan forms aninteresting contrast to that in the neighbouringtown of Paisley. In both cases a few scoreweavers were already operating in 1695. Bothexpanded rapidly after the middle of… … A Pirn Winder; Windlass or Windles; Weavers Chair. centrated mainly on its well-known shawls,transformed its industry from a cottage to afactory basis until it was working six times asmany looms as Kilbarchan, and maintained ahigh rate of production until the 1870s. Thenit paid the penalty for…
