The water power generated was used to mill grain, weave cloth, tan leather and manufacture paper.

Some wove cloth while others had roles as shoemakers, embroiderers, bakers and washerwomen.

However, it at least seems to have been a cohesive enough community for the village dwellers to come together in the winter months to weave cloth.

The community spin thread and weave cloth.

By the late 1970s, no other similarly woven cloths had been recovered from that period.