| Het Leids Wevershuis | |
| Coordinates: | 52.1599°N 4.4983°W |
| Established: | 2005 |
| Location: | Middelstegracht 143 |
| Curator: | Herbert van Hoogdalem |
| Publictransit: | From Leiden Central Station – Bus 5 or 6 to Leiderdorp – bus stop Hooigracht – Ir. Driessenstraat |
| Website: | http://www.wevershuis.nl/home/english/ |
Museum Het Leids Wevershuis consists of one of the last remaining "weavers' homes" in Leiden, Netherlands. Built around 1560, the exterior, the large antique loom (1830) and the interior, are testimony of the once flourishing textile industry (and trade) around Leiden, in particular during the 16th and 17th century, when many home weavers supplied the draper's guild with high quality woolen cloth.
The building and its antique interior are the museum. There is a small collection of modern hand-woven textiles. The museum has a weaver available most days to demonstrate the craft on a large loom. Products made during demonstrations are for sale.
The museum is a short walking distance from the old Draper's guild, part of Museum De Lakenhal (Dutch for Cloth Hall) today.
Located on a spot which had always been used as a laborer's home, the house fell almost victim to a great plan to modernize the city in the 1960s (which never materialized due to opposition). It was never granted the rijksmonument status.
In the 1970s it attracted the attention of a small group of local historians and they formed Het Kleine Leidse Woonhuis in 1976 to save small old buildings in Leiden such as this one. The building was consolidated (not renovated) as a house in a neck-gable style around 1900. The mostly intact interior reflects living arrangements for workers in the early 20th-century in Leiden.An original cellar exists under the house and parts of the interior date back to the 17th-century.[1]
Today it is part of a group of small houses in a neighborhood of mostly cement and modern brick constructions from the 1960s and 1970s.
An inscription in the narrow hallway of the house tells about the people who owned or rented the house, and their professions. Most dwellers worked in the textile industry.[2]
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from:1581 till:1583 color:$col2 shift:($dx,-5) text:(1581) from:1581 till:1583 color:$col2 shift:($tab,-5) text:linen weaver Claes Pietersz. # period unknown
from:1589 till:1626 color:$col1 shift:($dx,0) text:1598-ca 1626 from:1589 till:1626 color:$col1 shift:($tab,0) text:(widow of) Pieter Jansz. farmer / butcher
from:1631 till:1671 color:$col2 shift:($dx,0) text:1631-1671 from:1631 till:1671 color:$col2 shift:($tab,0) text:linen weaver Jan Woutersz. IJser and Annetgen Dirckx
from:1671 till:1676 color:$col1 shift:($dx,0) text:1671-ca 1676 from:1671 till:1676 color:$col1 shift:($tab,0) text:saaidrapier (Eng?) Johannes Walckier and Jannetje Serruijs
from:1680 till:1684 color:$col2 shift:($dx,0) text:1680-1684 from:1680 till:1684 color:$col2 shift:($tab,0) text:line weaver Johannes Heijmans
from:1692 till:1725 color:$col1 shift:($dx,0) text:1692-1725 from:1692 till:1725 color:$col1 shift:($tab,0) text:opperman (Eng ?) Jan van Hoven and Gretha Koppen
from:1725 till:1728 color:$col2 shift:($dx,0) text:1725-? # period unknown
from:1725 till:1728 color:$col2 shift:($tab,0) text:button maker Arent Laverman and Agnietje Spieringshoek
from:1748 till:1751 color:$col1 shift:($dx,0) text:ca 1748 # period unknown from:1748 till:1751 color:$col1 shift:($tab,0) text:kettingscheerder (Eng ?) Pieter Genon and Pieternella Beister
from:1760 till:1763 color:$col2 shift:($dx,-3) text:ca 1760 from:1760 till:1763 color:$col2 shift:($tab,-3) text:Dirk Groenevelt # period unknown
from:1763 till:1767 color:$col1 shift:($dx,5) text:1763-1767 from:1763 till:1767 color:$col1 shift:($tab,5) text:peat carrier Steven van der Pluijm
from:1767 till:1803 color:$col2 shift:($dx,0) text:1767-1803 from:1767 till:1803 color:$col2 shift:($tab,0) text:catechist Jan van Dissel with family and subtenants
from:1803 till:1812 color:$col1 shift:($dx,-5) text:1803-1812 from:1803 till:1812 color:$col1 shift:($tab,-5) text:L. Eruadis de Jonge
from:1812 till:1814 color:$col2 shift:($dx,0) text:1812-1814 from:1812 till:1814 color:$col2 shift:($tab,0) text:weaver Johannis de Vos
from:1814 till:1833 color:$col1 shift:($dx,0) text:1814-1833 from:1814 till:1833 color:$col1 shift:($tab,0) text:printer Pieter van der Hert
from:1846 till:1857 color:$col2 shift:($dx,-10) text:1846-1857 from:1846 till:1857 color:$col2 shift:($tab,-10) text:carpenter Abraham Delfos and Cornelia Sjardijn
from:1857 till:1859 color:$col1 shift:($dx,-5) text:1857-1859 from:1857 till:1859 color:$col1 shift:($tab,-5) text:merchant Paulus Schilt
from:1859 till:1861 color:$col2 shift:($dx,5) text:1859-1861 from:1859 till:1861 color:$col2 shift:($tab,5) text:Johan van der Laan
from:1880 till:1895 color:$col1 shift:($dx,0) text:ca 1880-1895 from:1880 till:1895 color:$col1 shift:($tab,0) text:joiner's assistant Pieter Jan Lens and Clasina van Hest
from:1895 till:1908 color:$col2 shift:($dx,0) text:1895-1908 from:1895 till:1908 color:$col2 shift:($tab,0) text:cigar maker Leendert Kos and Anna van Dorp
from:1908 till:1940 color:$col1 shift:($dx,0) text:1908-1940 from:1908 till:1940 color:$col1 shift:($tab,0) text:machinist Ludovicus Groen in 't Woud and Catharina Spierenburg
from:1943 till:1946 color:$col2 shift:($dx,0) text:(1943) from:1943 till:1946 color:$col2 shift:($tab,0) text:widow C.L. Rietbergen # period unknown
from:1963 till:2003 color:$col1 shift:($dx,0) text:1963-2003 from:1963 till:2003 color:$col1 shift:($tab,0) text:biologist L.R. Wijmenga
from:2005 till:end color:coral shift:($dx,-5) text:2005-now from:2005 till:end color:coral shift:($tab,-5) text:museum