Sma' Shot Cottages

Today's blip is another history lesson on the Paisley thread industry of the 18th-19th century.
The only survivor of the original Shuttle Street, which was built between 1735 and the early 1750s, and belongs to the world of the hand loom weavers. It was built for Kerr and Pollock, cloth manufacturers or corks, in the early 1750s. The first direct reference to this Cottage is in a sasine of 1776, when it was one of the many properties bought by another cork, Andrew Brown, after the failure of Kerr and Pollock, probably due to the collapse of the Bank of Ayr, some three years earlier.
The early history of the Cottage is linked with the Lawson family. They were the tenant or owner of this Cottage for over 120 years. A Lawson wove here for about 80 years, there were looms here for almost 110 years, and, as you will see, they have returned, and are now restored and working on a part-time basis. The purchase of the properties from Mary Lawson was completed in 1879
" The Sma' Shot Cottages are open to the public every Wednesday and Saturday during the months from April to September"