Eves Handicrafts The Home Weavers (1932)
Filmed at Eastcote, Middlesex. We came across them at the Sign of the Shuttle busy washing the wool M, S of a large sign outside a house which reads The Shuttle and has a picture of a loom shuttle painted upon it. M, S of two young girls (from Collins family) standing in a bath in shorts and shirts. A fleece is put into the bath with a bucketful of water and the girls begin stamping on the wool. Here they dye to live M, S of the two girls helping their mother to dye wool. It s a good job Eve s hair doesn t require the same kind of combing as this wool. M, S of group of young girls carding wool. An older woman helps the girls to separate the strands of wool. Like a page from the past L, S of girls sitting in the open air at spinning wheels. They spin the wool. C, Us of woman working at a spinning wheel. L, S of girls working a large wool winder. And hour after hour the lady of the loom weaves her Interior young girl works at spinning wheel whilst an older woman weaves
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