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ID slm.1997.1671
Name Photographic slide - Tweed Weaver on Lewis.
Date Made 1986
Place Made Lewis
Description

Interior image of a tweed weaver in blue overalls and black hat operating a large tweed-making machine within a stone walled room. Figure is most likely making Harris Tweed on a Bonas-Griffith loom, a loom capable of creating double width fabric. Photograph taken by Keith Allardyce

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