Records: Newborough Mat Makers Association

MINUTE BOOK: Newborough Mat Makers Association.

Enclosed balance sheets and return, 1938.

Newborough Mat Makers Association, Niwbwrch, Anglesey, was active between 1913 and 1940. Newborough (Niwbwrch) had a long history as a centre for the manufacture of rush mats, active since 1750, using the marram grass growing on sand dunes to the west of the village; the mats were used to cover hay-stacks. The industry had declined in the late 19th century, and in 1913 the Association was formed as a cooperative to make and sell the mats, at the instigation of Col. Stapleton Cotton of Llanfair Pwllgwyn; previously, the mats had been bartered with local shopkeepers for goods, leaving the shopkeepers to transport and sell them further afield. By the 1930s, demand for the hay-stack covers was falling, and the industry disappeared shortly afterwards.

Dim cyfyngiadau/ No Restrictions

Adnau preifat / Private deposit.

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Mae copiau clawr caled o`r catalogau ar gael yn Archifau Ynys Môn ac yn y Gofrestr Cenedlaethol Archifau. Polisi Archifau Ynys Môn yw catalogio yn iaith y ddogfen./Hard copies of the catalogue are available at Archifau Ynys Môn / Anglesey Archives and the National Register of Archives. It is the policy of Archifau Ynys Môn / Anglesey Archives to catalogue in the language of the document.

Cyflwr da /Good condition

Compiled by Seri Crawley for the ANW project. The following sources were consulted in the compilation of this description: Archifau Ynys Môn / Anglesey Archives, Minor List, Newborough Mat Makers Association; Williams, Moelwyn I., 'A further contribution to the commercial history of Glamorgan', National Library of Wales Journal, 1960; Owen, Hugh, 'The mat-weaving industry in Newborough', Transactions of Anglesey Antiquarian Society, 1923; Griffiths, Miriam (text), The Marram Weavers of Newborough (Llansadwrn: Magma Books (Robert Williams), 1997).

Mae'r holl gofnodiadau sy'n cydymffurfio â pholisi casglu Swyddfa Gofnodi Cyngor Sir Ynys Môn wedi eu cadw /All records which meet the collection policy of the Anglesey Archives have been retained.

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