Interior of D. Thomas Cross Inn Tailor's shop, showing tools and equipment from D. J. Rees' tailor's shop, Brechfa, and Dan Davies, Rhydlewis. The Singer treadle sewing machine is a typical example of the type of machine which was in every small workshop in the countryside. This was the machine used by D. J. Rees for most of his long career of almost eighty years and the tailor's dummy in the fitting room is the one upon which he used to display a half made-up suit. The coal-fired cast iron stove for heating both the large goose irons and the flat irons was originally fitted in his workshop at Darren View, Brechfa, and the pressing boards on the tables are also from there. In addition there are boxes of tailor's chalk, needles, measuring tapes, thousands of buttons and buckles, even the cushions he used to sit upon to sew and the slippers he wore whilst sitting cross-legged on the table. The waste baskets are full of off-cuts from his last months of work. The cut-out suits, ready for sewing, were brought to the Museum of Welsh Life in 1965 from Dan Davies's shop, along with many pattern books, his workbox and the bowl of wax he used for waxing his sewing thread, and his squares and rules for marking out. The old irons on the stove are from a number of different workshops. The workshop is arranged to show the tasks of cutting out, stitching and ironing all going on simultaneously, as they would be when it was a working shop, with two or three working together.