Head weaver
Nell Fairhurst
22 years at the mill
Draws every new cloth on paper before it goes near a loom, and can hear a broken end from the…
The mill floor
Makers
Loom technician
Idris Bowen
31 years at the mill
Keeps four Dobcross looms from the 1950s running, and machines the parts nobody makes any more.
Dyer and colourist
Marguerite Okonjo
9 years at the mill
Runs the indigo and madder vats, and matches to standard under three different light sources before a lot is signed…
Finisher
Tom Rievaulx
14 years at the mill
Scours, mills and crops. Decides how much a wool cloth is allowed to close up before it stops being the…