In the 1930s when Phyllis Bentley's book The Pennine Weaver was published, the impression given, at least by the title, was of a lone heroic figure struggling to make a living amid the grimness of life in the Pennines. Heroic he may have been, but he was certainly not alone. The cloth he carried on his shoulders to the Cloth Hall was not made just by him. It was a joint effort by all the family, wife, children and probably mothers-in-law...
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