Cyngor Llyfrau Cymru
From Fleece to Fabric
From Fleece to Fabric
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Disgrifiad Cymraeg / Welsh Description
Golwg liwgar ar ddiwydiant a gyflogodd filoedd ac a ddilladodd filiynau o bobl. Yma cewch gipolwg ar hanes y melinau a'r gweithwyr - y dynion, y merched a'r plant. Cewch atebion i gwestiynau megis Ymhle roedd 'Huddersfield Cymru'? a Beth yw 'Llysiau'r Cribwr'? Mae'r llyfr yn mynd â ni ar y siwrnai hynod sy'n mynd â gwlân o ddafad i ddefnydd.
Disgrifiad Saesneg / English Description
An illustrated, colourful look at the industry that employed thousands and clothed millions of people. It includes the history of the mills and the men, women and children who worked there and answers questions like 'Where was the 'Huddersfield of Wales'? and What exactly are 'tenter hooks'? It takes the reader on the journey from fleece to fabric.
Manylion y cynnyrch / Product details
- ISBN 13
- 9780720006025
- Gwales Code
- gwales.com.9780720006025
- Gwerthwr / Vendor
- Cyngor Llyfrau Cymru
- Long Title
- From Fleece to Fabric
- Awdur / Author
- Whittall, Ann
- Current Price ex VAT
- £4.50
- Current Price inc VAT
- £4.50
- Availability Status (EN)
- Available
- Availability Status (CY)
- Ar gael
- Dyddiad cyhoeddi / Publication Date
- 2023-11-22
- Cyhoeddwr / Publisher
- Llyfrau Amgueddfa Cymru/National Museum Wales Books
- Editor
- Gordon, Mari
- Media Type (EN)
- Paperback / softback
- Media Type (CY)
- Clawr meddal
- Pages
- 48 pages
- Size
- 120 × 150 mm; depth 4 mm
- Language Code
- English
- Categori / Category
- CY: Hanes, Hanes Lleol, Arferion Gwlad, Llên Gwerin (yn Saesneg) | EN: History, Welsh Life and Customs, Local History, Folk Tales (in English)
- Is-gategori / Subcategory
- CY: Bywyd ac Arferion Cymru (yn Saesneg) | EN: Welsh Life and Customs (in English)
Cynnwys / Table of Contents
1 The Woollen Industry in Wales 2 The Woollen Industry in the Teifi Valley 3 The process - from fleece to fabric 4 Wool 5 The National Wool Museum
Adolygiad y Cyhoeddwr / Publisher Review
This colourful little book, with its delightful design, offers us an insight into an industry which, at one time, employed thousands of people and which clothed millions. Its main aim is to provide a guide to the National Welsh Wool Museum housed in the former Cambrian Mills at Dre-fach Felindre in Carmarthenshire. The woollen industry is one of Wales’ oldest industries, with its roots in early history. It had a significant boost in the Middle Ages when weavers from Flanders settled in south Pembrokeshire. This was mainly a domestic activity, undertaken to clothe the family or make blankets and carpets for the home. By the nineteenth century commercial mills were established in mid-Wales, and Newtown temporarily became an important centre for the industry, but it couldn’t compete with the huge mills in Lancashire and Yorkshire. As the industry waned in north and mid-Wales, the Teifi valley became a key centre for the industry. By 1900, there were 52 mills in Dre-fach Felindre alone. This large village became known as the ‘Welsh Huddersfield’, with the majority of the residents, including men and children, wholly dependent on the industry. The mills of the Teifi valley reached their zenith between the two world wars, as they responded to the demand for flannel to create uniforms for millions of soldiers; but it’s difficult to understand why the Cambrian Mills used wool from Australia and New Zealand, as the book notes. The demand for Welsh flannel dwindled after the Second World War, but things improved in the 1960s as fashion designers such as Mary Quant, who had Welsh roots, used Welsh flannel in her exciting and daring designs for women from the ‘Swinging Sixties’. Another designer who promoted the use of Welsh flannel was Laura Ashley, who established a factory in Carno, in Montgomeryshire. But there came another period of decline, and by 1976 Cambrian Mills in Dre-fach Felindre became home to the Museum of the Welsh Woollen Industry, which reopened in 2004 as the National Wool Museum. Each stage of the process of creating flannel from wool is explained in detail by Ann Whittall, starting with shearing, then separating, dyeing, carding, spinning, winding and warping, through to the end of the process when the flannel is produced, after it has been washed and dried. There are several black and white photographs throughout the book, and some modern colour images. As a Welsh-language version already exists, has the Museum missed out on an opportunity to update that particular version and create a bilingual booklet with parallel text? Both books tell the important tale of a key industry which had a huge impact on parts of rural Wales. Richard E. Huws It is possible to use this review for promotional purposes, but the following acknowledgment should be included: A review from www.gwales.com, with the permission of the Bools Council of Wales.
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