Looms with a view: a tour of Lancashire’s former mill towns

Non-practitioners tend to see the world of textiles through the doily tinted spectacles of the BBC’s The Great British Sewing Bee or else through the soot-filled eyes of William Blake’s “dark satanic mills”. The filter of postindustrialisation frames the spinning rooms and weaving sheds as bygone, other; demolition and development have sought to erase the […] The post Looms with a view: a tour of Lancashire’s former mill towns appeared first on Mirror News Today.
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