Silk is woven into the fabric of Macclesfield’s identity in so many ways. Walk around the town today and you’ll find the mills and warehouses that have survived from the town’s golden age of silk production. But, the silk stories of Macclesfield run much deeper: silk shaped the human lives in the town, as well as paving the way for technological advances in the form of the Jacquard mechanism, a technology that laid the foundations for our digital age.
From the personal experiences of individual silk workers to the role Macclesfield Silk played on the global stage of the Second World War, there is a lot to discover.