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.
Entry prices
- Adult
- £8.50
- Concession
- £6.00
- Family
- £20.50
- One adult family
- £14.00
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Volunteers can be seen spinning wool
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Flax is grown in the pretty cottage garden
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A volunteer carding wool at Weaver’s Cottage
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Take a step into the past and see the cottage as it once was
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Woad is grown in the cottage garden
About this place
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 vividly re-creates the living and working conditions of a typical handloom weaver. With low ceiling beams and period furniture, it helps give an 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 are grown, along with a wide range of cottage garden plants.
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