A Visit to Laxtons Spinning Mill with Carly Smith & Rochelle Tracey

Make it British Podcast by Kate Hills

May 1, 202623:46Arts

In this episode of the Women in Wool series, I visited Laxtons Yarns in Baildon, Yorkshire, a fourth generation family spinning mill that is now employee-owned. I was given a full tour of the mill floor by commercial dir...

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