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A query was asked concerning looms in the "cottage industry" of wool weaving in Wiltshire. My belief (noting that my mother was descended from many wool weavers from Broughton Gifford and Norrington, but I do not believe I was told about looms as a fact, so this is little more than hypothetical from someone who visited one of the old cottages just about weekly as a small child) has been that these looms were not in the cottages (which were quite small before modern additions of the 1960s and subsequently) (and for many cottages there would have been many children living in the cottages) but in what we might call a "lean-to" against the wall of the cottage, which lean-tos have long since gone. I suggest that the wool weavers in villages such as Broughton Gifford and Norrington produced, and left a legacy of, quite independent thinkers, at least until "new blood" families moved into the villages. Perhaps someone living locally might look (with appropriate permissions) at the outsides of old cottages without extensions to see whether or not there are any signs consistent with there having been lean-tos formerly. I do not know what to suggest such signs might be.