National Wool Museum at Drefach Felindre, Carmarthenshire

The Wool Museum at the Old Cambrian Mills in Drefach-Felindre

The National Wool museum at Dre-Fach Felindre is housed in the old Cambrian Mills, once the centre of a thriving Welsh woollen industry.

The museum tells the story of an industry that produced shirts and shawls, blankets and bedcovers and woollen stockings that were sold in local markets and which were exported all over the world.

At the musuem you can see working textile machinery, discover hwat it was like to work at the Cambrian Mills and explore the Textile Gallery - with a stunning wall of blankets and unusual nineteenth century knitted socks.

The museum is also home to a commercial working mill, one of the last flannel makers in Wales.  On permanent display at the museum are works from Julia Griffiths Jones, who is visually combining the ongoing manufacturing process of the working mill, Melin Teifi with the historic textile collection. The Museum is located 4 miles east of Newcastle Emlyn, 16 miles west of Carmarthen off the A484. Follow brown tourist signs for National Woollen Museum.

Opening Times:
April to September: 10am - 5pm daily
October tp March: 10am - 5pm, Tuesday - Saturday

For more information call 01559 370929. If you contact the National Wool Museum please mention that you found this information in www.carmarthenshire-pages.co.uk

Farm Holidays - Wales at Morlogws Farm is only 61/2 miles away - enjoy a heated indoor swimming pool and hot tub when you rent a Carmarthenshire holiday cottage, a log cabin or the farmhouse itself.

The Emlyn Arms Hotel dates back over 300 years, when it was a Coaching Inn. It is in the centre of Newcastle Emlyn, a busy Market Town at the border of Carmarthenshire and Ceredigion, approximately 4 1/2 miles away.