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Enjoy a day in Carlisle visiting a
famous weaving mill.
The talk and trip around the mill gives the opportunity to discover how Designer
fabics are produced.
Plenty of time to shop for fabrics and designer knit wear at discount prices!
Home cooked meals available in The Bobbin coffee shop.
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Textile
mill in Carlisle, UK; manufacturer of woven, textured, novelty fabrics for top of the
range womenswear, available to both retail and wholesale markets.
Mail order service available.
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Linton Tweeds at Sewing for Pleasure, NEC |
An earlier Linton Tweeds trip...
by Joan Baker
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"We set off by train to
visit the famous Linton Tweeds Mill in Carlisle Cumbria. It was a delightful journey, in
good company, travelling through beautiful countryside, followed by a warm welcome at the
Linton Complex.
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| Carol Walker, company director,
showed us the most amazing, unusual and intricate yarns which go to make the beautiful
fabrics for the fashion couture houses such as Chanel in Paris, Balmain, William Hartnell,
London and Bruce Oldfield etc. |
After this amazing insight into
the world of unusual yarns collected from the Far East, Italy America and of course our
own British Isles, we had a delicious lunch in the Bobbin Restaurant before browsing
through the Linton Fabrics shop. We found lots of bargains and then visited the designer knitwear
to complement the fine fabrics. |
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It was such a privilege to be
allowed through the hand weave shop and see the experienced craftsmen and women using the
very old handlooms and the modern fast working, computerised machines. |
| The mill had a great atmosphere
with every one of the workforce being multi-talented and, like a large family, reliant on
each other’s achievements. |
We learned about the family
history of Linton Company and we even discovered that the mill chimney is the seventh
tallest in the world and the mill is a listed building." |
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