Gainsborough Silk at Chilton
Subject: Business and Industry
Gallery: Up to 1970
Catalogue ref: pa751
William Gooday was Gainsborough Silk’s foreman. He was born in 1848 and began to learn the craft of hand loom weaving when he was eight. Here, in 1928 on his 80th birthday, he demonstrates his skills on one of the Company’s tall Jacquard looms.