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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.
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.
Opening Times
2008: Weaving
Weaver's Garden June - Sept as Shop Handspinning Demonstration and an opportunity
to try weaving yourself on small handlooms. FREE ADMISSION -REGRET NO SCHOOL PARTIES, COACHES BY APPOINTMENT PLEASE. Bus route: 19 and X19 from Llandudno/ Conwy and Betws-y-Coed/Llangollen
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Trefriw
Woollen Mills
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.
