The pleasure of Paisley

Living as we do, close to Paisley and having a small collection of Paisley shawls, we have tried to acquire as many costumes as possible, which in the beginning were made of the now redundant large shawls.   Many were used as bed covers, table cloths, upholstery material, but many were…

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Necessary but sad…

Last week and today, our trusty band of volunteers or the monstrous regiment of women as I am wont to call them, have been putting away the wonderful clothes from the Glasgow Gift exhibition which had been running since Good Friday, which is the day on which we traditionally open…

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Visitors and ancestors

One of the pleasures of managing the Mill and Museum is the constant trickle of family members from Canada, America, Australia and New Zealand, not to mention South Africa, who come to the Mill seeking information about their ancestors.  Now of course, one can refer them to Scotlandspeople.gov.uk of which…

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