I’m related to the French Hugenot silk weavers, last weekend checked out Macclesfield Silk Museum. There used to be 70 Silk/Cotton mills just in Macclesfield, did Indian block printing and…

made silk parachutes & printed silk maps during the war, made tassels & buttons. Randomly the owner liked going abroad & there’s a random stuffed panda upstairs. Amazing place, still make solk buttons etc., looms working again from March, check out www.thesilkmuseum.co.uk?darkschemeov... for more