Paper Weaving - Woven Protest Banners

Conditions failed to improve and although the Reform Act of 1832 gave more people the right to vote, ordinary workers had no way of making their voices heard.  Wages were being cut throughout the country and the workers gathered together (The Chartists) to demand a People's Charter - to provide for fair treatment of the workers.

Nearly 200 years ago, we talked about how we could let people know we were unhappy with the way we were being treated.

There was no television, no radio, no internet and no social media.  We would need to put our feelings and demands onto a poster.

After taking strips of paper, which we wove together and decorated, we used our drawings and big writing to make striking posters to let people know how we felt about our poor conditions. This taught us how to weave - that vertical pieces are called the warp and horizontal pieces are the weft.
We learned how the weft goes over and under the warp to form the weave.