
A short film about the straw bonnet industry in Orkney. This film was made for Doors Open Days and features Stromness
A short film about the straw bonnet industry in Orkney. This film was made for Doors Open Days and features Stromness
In the 1841 census the oldest woman working at plaiting straw was 75 year old Catherine Wilson of Wellington Street.
Throughout the first half of the 19th Century, the strawplaiting industry employed thousands of women in Orkney.