Skye Weavers – Pedal-Powered Looms and Lunch in Glendale
A few hours.
The route
Out on Skye's far north-west corner, Glendale has a small woollen mill where tweed, scarves and throws are made on looms driven by bicycle pedals.
Watch a loom at work in the weaving shed and browse the shop, then drive a few minutes down the glen for lunch at Cafe Lephin.
Before you go
Book accommodation nearby
If you are staying over: here are ours nearest where the day starts and ends.
The day
Glendale
A slow morning in a crofting glen, among Skye tweed and the looms that make it, then lunch in a warm little café on the road to Neist Point.
About two and a half hours
Skye Weavers
A shop
Skye Weavers is signed from the B884 as the road comes over the hill into Glendale. Leave the car in the visitor parking halfway down the drive and walk on down the hill to the shop and the weaving shed; there's a little parking at the bottom for anyone who finds the slope hard. Since 2012 the mill has made tweed, scarves, throws and blankets on looms driven by bicycle pedals, in a shed beside an old croft house, with a good deal of the wool coming from sheep on Skye's own farms and crofts. Step into the shed to watch a loom at work, then browse the shop. There's no need to book, and an hour is about right.
4 min by car
Cafe Lephin
Lunch
It's 4 minutes' drive west along the road towards Neist Point to Cafe Lephin, a black timber café on the right-hand side in Lephin. It's family-run, with a wood-burning stove, home-made soup, home baking and light lunches, and local ales too.
If it rains
All of it is under a roof, so it suits a wet morning in the west of Skye.
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