Trefriw WoollenMills

Trefriw Woollen Mills has been in the Williams family since Thomas Williams bought it in 1859, and still weaves Welsh double-cloth — the bold, geometric tapestry bedspreads and tweeds of the north Wales tradition — in a mill on the Crafnant that draws its power from the river itself, through its own water turbines. You can walk through the working mill, see the looms run, and buy the cloth in the shop. It is a rare survival: a family textile mill still weaving in the Conwy valley, powered by water, generations after Thomas Williams took it on. Come for the weaving; the bedspreads are the real thing.