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The quality of wool depends on the individual sheep and on the part of the sheep's body from which the wool has been taken. [1] The common Welsh Mountain sheep are hardy and thrive in the cold and wet conditions of the Welsh highlands. The wool is soft and may have kemp and black, grey or red fibres, which makes it attractive in tweeds and ...
Launched as the Museum of the Welsh Woollen Industry in 1976, [4] it reopened in March 2004 as the National Wool Museum following a two-year, £2 million refit partly funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund. [5] The restoration work includes a glass roofed courtyard and a new gallery which displays aspects of the National Flat Textile collection.
The mill made tweeds, blankets, flannel, stair carpets and knitting wool. [4] Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald had a Middle Mill tweed suit made in 1929. [5] Tom Griffith's son-in-law, Eric Hemmingway, took over the operation in 1950, began producing carpets on the power looms, then upgraded to larger and more modern machinery.
[3] [obsolete source] Breeds favoured by modern wool producers, which originate from Wales, include the Badger Face Welsh Mountain, the Balwen Welsh Mountain and the Black Welsh Mountain. [10] Sheep farming in the mountains of Wales is an arduous task, particularly when the traditional techniques of farming are followed.
Trefriw Woollen Mills is one of the few remaining woollen mills still in production in Wales. [6] The mill continues to be owned and operated by the Williams family. [2] It takes raw wool, which it cards, spins, dyes and weaves into tapestry bedspreads, tweeds and travelling rugs. [7]
The building dates to 1820, when it opened as a corn mill, which was converted to a Welsh flannel weaving mill. [2] The mill carded, dyed, spun and wove local wool, using water power until about 1860. [2] Before World War II (1939–45) the mill supplied woollen products to Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother.
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Melin Tregwynt (Tregwynt Mill) is a woollen mill in the hamlet of Tregwynt in the parish of Granston, Pembrokeshire, Wales.A mill has stood on this site since 1819 taking fleeces from the sheep farms of the area, carding and spinning them into woollen yarn and then weaving the yarn into cloth and blankets.