Trefriw Woollen Mills
Main Road,
Trefriw,
Conwy Valley,
N. Wales,
LL27 0NQ
Tel: 01492 640462
Fax: 0709 286 8242
Email: info@t-w-m.co.uk
Web: www.t-w-m.co.uk

An opportunity to purchase Welsh bedspreads, tweeds and travelling rugs at the mill where they are woven together with garments, dinner sets and purses made up in our fabrics. Most of our products are exclusively available in our shop. We also stock a carefully selected range of pure wool and natural fibre knitwear, accessories, and sheepskin rugs, gloves etc.

Visit our mill and see how traditional Welsh bedspreads are woven on Dobcross looms as they have been for over 100 years. We carry out all the processes in the woollen manufacture here from the raw wool to the woven bedspread. The top two floors of the mill (open Easter - end September) contain the carding engines, spinning mules, doubling machine, warping mill etc. These machines can be viewed during opening hours but operate according to production demand.

Trefriw Woollen Mills started life as a pandy about 200 years ago. Pandy means "fulling mill" in English and cloth which had been hand woven was brought here. The mill was situated by the fast-flowing river Crafnant in order to use the water to wash the wool and power the water wheels. The water wheels were dismantled about 1900, but we still use the water to turn the turbines which generate electricity to power the mill.

The small garden by the hand spinners cottage contains plants associated with the textile industry:- teasels for brushing the cloth, plants which supply natural fibres such as flax and sisal, and plants which supply natural dyes such as woad and madder,.

Trefriw is a lovely village in the Snowdonia National Park. Also worth visiting in the area:- Llyn Crafnant and Llyn Geirionydd,:- lakes which supply the water which generates our power, the Fairy Falls in Trefriw, Llanrhychwyn Church, Trefriw Spa, Gwydir Castle. A number of walks (Trefriw Trails) start in the car park opposite and are way marked.

How to find us:
The woollen mills are in the centre of Trefriw on the B5016 five miles north of Betws-y-Coed and eight miles south of Conwy.

Opening Times 2008:
Shop and turbine house
Open all year daily 9.30 am - 5.30 pm
(Winter 10 am - 5 pm)
Closed Christmas Day, Boxing Day, New Year's Day

Weaving
All year Mon - Fri except Bank Holidays
10 am - 1 pm and 2 pm - 5 pm
No weaving over Christmas holiday period.


Working museum

Easter - end September, Mon - Fri except Bank Holidays
10 am - 1 pm and 2 pm - 5 pm

Weaver's Garden June - Sept as Shop

Handspinning Demonstration and an opportunity to try weaving yourself on small handlooms.
Monday March 24 - Friday March 28th (Easter week)
Mon May 26th - Thurs May 29th (Spring Bank Holiday week)
June - September: Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays.

FREE ADMISSION -REGRET NO SCHOOL PARTIES, COACHES BY APPOINTMENT PLEASE.

Bus route: 19 and X19 from Llandudno/ Conwy and Betws-y-Coed/Llangollen
For public transport times 0870 608 2 608

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TREFRIW WOOLLEN MILLS LTD., TREFRIW, CONWY VALLEY, N.WALES, LL27 0NQ.
Tel: 01492 640462
Web: www.t-w-m.co.uk
Email: info@t-w-m.co.uk

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