Educational influences

The success of APSU as an organisation, and the attention focussed on weaving as a viable activity for the future, promoted the local schoolteacher Professor Samuel Gisbert and his wife, together with the schoolchildren and community members, to request a similar combination of male and female traditional activities in school workshops. They opted for carpentry and weaving workshops, which the Inner Wheel Club in Sudbury equipped with a selection of carpentry tools, and five heddle treadle looms for making mantles and blankets.