From the Carpet Factory.

When we first moved to Embra, C and J Brown had a furniture warehouse in the Glen and adverts for it in the cinemas were openly directed at the couples in the back row; cinemas don't seem to have either of them these days. Before the Browns moved in, the site was used by Henry Widnell and Stewart Ltd for, as near as dammit, a hundred years as a carpet factory, finally closing in 1969. One of my (many) hobbies is weaving, though my loom is now languishing, part of it in the loft and the rest of it under the bed. Consequently this slowly decomposing item, the last visible remains of the factory, was immediately recognisable to me; my initial thought was to title this blip, "The Broken Reed", but this is a portion of a batten, the bit that holds the reed, the combined structure is the beater and is used to push the weft into place; the weft is the one that goes from weft to wight while the warp is the one that goes warp and doon. when I first found this, part of the reed was still there but it has now rusted away leaving little trace.