Almonte's Textile Museum

One of the places Terry and I visited in our recent day-trip to Almonte was the Textile Museum.

It's housed in an old textile mill.

(Some of the historic complex has been converted into condominiums...)

It was interesting to see the old machinery...

Watching a volunteer weaver making tea-towels on a hand loom reminded me that my mother once had a similar loom in her porch, and I still have samples of her work...

There was a special exhibit of woven art...

Terry wanted to purchase this lovely woven tapestry...

My favorite was this one, a compilation of three woven hangings...

But it's hard to justify purchasing pieces of art - as beautiful as they are - when we have very little wall space left - and we are always thinking of downsizing!