What's Going on at the Macgee Cloth Company?

Cotton, for an arid crop that requires no chemical processing has been hit with a great deal of criticism by marketers of high water use and chemically processed fibers like...

Amid the rolling, wooded acreages north of the highway in Roberts Creek, members of the public will soon be able to witness an unlikely slice of 19th-century British industry, clanking away in a workshop just off Hanbury Road. The formidable, rhythmic noise visitors will hear is from one of the Macgee Cloth Company’s vintage, two-tonne looms turning out craft wool and cotton blankets.

 

Welcome to the new home of the Macgee Cloth Company. I’m excited to share with you my love of the tradition, craft and beauty of making heirloom blankets on antique shuttle looms.