Knaresborough. Mason's Sheep Skin Works

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Price:  £6.99 –+ Add to Basket Format:   Select:A4 print:  £6.99A3 print:  £8.50Digital copy:  £5.00 Reference:  BU04909AA4 Free postage and packing on all photograph orders Photographs can be supplied as A4 or A3 prints or as digital copies, which will be sent by email. The online watermark does not appear in photographs purchased. All photographs are subject to copyright restrictions and may not be published without permission.

Lewis Outing emails [2006/7]:
This was my grandfather's Sheep Skin Works, located on Waterside, Knaresborough. His name was James Mason. After his death in 1956, the business was run by my mother until its closure in 1965. This photograph shows one of my aunts, Pauline Mason, at work putting on a felt backing onto a rug. The backing was sewn on by fine linen thread and a 3-cornered needle which cut the skin as it went through.
Off-cuts were made into dusters, polishers etc.

The rug is ready to be sold