Virtual Tour: Burns Cottage, Alloway

The Kitchen

The kitchen of the cottage would be the heart of the home for the Burnes family. In this room, food would be cooked on the range, meals would be eaten around the fire, the bible would be read aloud, the women of the house would spin yarn for clothes and the box beds and pull-out cots would provide sleeping space.

Carding tools and Spinning wheel

Women used carding tools to take the tangles out of wool before it was spun. When this was done, evenings would be spent spinning sheep’s wool to make clothes.