Gwen comes attired as a middle class widow with a range of artifacts to explain the process of turning wool into cloth.

In Tudor times, cloth production underpinned the whole economy and the story of how a piece of fleece becomes beautiful cloth, is a fascinating one.

I am a sixteenth century clothier - the entrepreneur, the capitalist who organises production of cloth, much of it for export. I buy fleeces from the farmer and know the best parts of the fleece, the types of sheep and how the farmer‘s care affects the quality. I own my own dye house where Richard and John, my woadsetters, dye fleece or yarn or cloth. I talk about the woad dye and how I get it and treat it. and the dyeing process. I arrange for carding and spinning with the poor women of the village and talk about their pay and their lives. Weaving is done by a man and his apprentice on the broadloom and I have stories about this process. Then follow the various finishing processes .I talk about marketing - straits and kerseys to a local fair,- broadcloths to Blackwell Hall and Antwerp and beyond. I talk about the place of cloth production and export in the economy and about some of the laws governing it. I show much equipment - fleece, woad, and other dyes, carders and spindle, yarn and reel, cloth as it comes from the loom and when it has been fulled, a teasel frame, shears, other raw materials such as cotton, flax, silk, cloth of the kind worn by ordinary people and good woollen cloth for export. Depending on the size of the group children can be involved. - in, for example, carding, hand spinning, twisting the spindle, using the teasel frame etc.