A weaver works at home at a hand loom. Weavers must buy their own equipment and maintain their own workshops, although the individual weavers are affiliated with mills. The independence of the weavers permits the continued maintenance of the crofting system of land use. Ducey claims that in spite of the decline of the clan system, cultural continuity has been maintained through a shift in the focus of the cultural system to religion. The Highland Scots adhere to a particularly ascetic brand of Presbyterianism.
Religion prevades all aspects of life.
Culture summary by Marlene M. Martin Ducey, Paul Richard. Cultural continuity and population change on the Isle of Skye. Parman, Susan Morrissett. Sociocultural change in a Scottish crofting township. 227 l. maps, tables.