Weaver’s Cottage

• Step back in time to when Kilbarchan was at the heart of a thriving textile industry.
• Experience what it was like to live in this atmospheric cottage over 200 years ago.
• See the last working handloom in the village.
• Look out for plants that were once used to make fabric dyes in the pretty cottage garden.

At this traditional Kilbarchan weaver’s cottage we’ll transport you back to a time when hand-woven textiles were the pride of Scotland’s weaving industry.

Weaver’s Cottage authentically re-creates a typical handloom weaver’s living and working conditions. Low ceiling beams and period furniture help give insight into life before the Industrial Revolution.

Today, the weavers specialise in making tartan on a 200-year-old loom.

The property has an attractive garden, where traditional dye plants, including woad and madder, and a wide range of cottage garden plants are grown.