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The Silk Museum & Paradise Mill

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The Silk Museum & Paradise Mill
The Silk Museum & Paradise Mill
The Silk Museum & Paradise Mill
The Silk Museum & Paradise Mill
The Silk Museum & Paradise Mill
The Silk Museum & Paradise Mill
The Silk Museum & Paradise Mill
The Silk Museum & Paradise Mill
The Silk Museum & Paradise Mill
The Silk Museum & Paradise Mill
The Silk Museum & Paradise Mill
The Silk Museum & Paradise Mill
The Silk Museum & Paradise Mill
The Silk Museum & Paradise Mill
The Silk Museum & Paradise Mill
Phone:
+44 1625 612045

Address:
Park Lane, Macclesfield SK11 6TJ, England

Congleton, Macclesfield, Bollington and Stockport were traditionally silk weaving towns. Silk was woven in Cheshire from the late 1600s. The handloom weavers worked in the attic workshops in their own homes. Macclesfield was famous for silk buttons manufacture. The supply of silk from Italy was precarious and some hand throwing was done, giving way after 1732 to water-driven mills were established in Stockport and Macclesfield.
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