The spinning wheels used here were known as lowland wheels, guided by the fingers of the weaver onto the bobbin before being transferred to the hand looms, which were the main feature here at Leri mills. The threads from the bobbins would be fed into long sheets of evenly combined colours to create the tweed. The hand looms were one of the final stages of the tweed production and due to their size became the main feature of Leri mills. Their design was largely unchanged since the mid 1700’s. Two people were required, one at each end to guide the threads into position as they control the machines moving around them. Considering the amount of automated machinery required to do this task today, it makes you realise how much of a physical operation this was to do by hand, often for around 8 hours a day.