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They carry out all the processes from raw wool to bedcovers, i.e. blending, carding, spinning,
doubling, dyeing, warping and weaving. We generate our own electricity using water turbines. Thomas Williams bought the mill
in 1859, it is also used. Before the Industrial Revolution, spinning and weaving was carried out by hand at home. The
woven cloth was taken to a fulling mill or "pandy" (in Welsh) to be washed and pounded before being stretched out on tenters
in the field to dry.
Trefriw Woollen Mills was such a pandy. Its position on the banks of the river Crafnant allowed
the exploitation of the soft, fast flowing water to wash the wool and cloth, and drive the water wheels which powered the
fulling hammers.
Come and you will get the cahnce to see their brilliant work.
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