Renfrewshire Witch Hunt 1697

This is a whole other experience when you head into this shop located on the ground floor of the Paisley Shopping Centre. You don’t take it in at first but you stop, look, blink lots, then think, «did I just see what I thought I saw? Yup, a shop with people dressed in period costume». I just had to go in and investigate more.
This shop is part museum, part sewing shop, part information centre. The shop is run by a group of volunteers who are using the shop to promote the event Renfrewhire Witch Hunt 1697 event on Saturday 9^th June.
They have examples of period costumes from the 17^th century hanging on the walls. If you want an instant change there is a painted wooden panel where you can pop you head in and suddenly you’re a 17^th century peasant man or woman. You guessed it, I couldn’t help myself and pop my head through.
They encourage you to not only to come along to the event in June but to make your own costume and transform yourself so you can join in on the day in your own period costume. I want to become a lady, I’m no peasant woman. Hehe!
There’s sewing machines and volunteers on hand to help you out. There’s also tutorial videos to help guide you.
Not only can you get information from the staff and information dotted around the shop but there’s a interactive multi-​media package on a laptop that you can scroll through at your own leisure finding out the history of the project and what the project have been doing. They said even the MSP Douglas Alexander came to visit the shop.
It’s a very unusual shop and to find in a shopping centre makes an interesting stop/​shop to the day.