Spitalfields, London, 1768. In the attic of a Georgian townhouse on Fournier Street, the scent of yarns and lubricant filled the air as wooden looms clacked. The Mandeville sisters crafted fashionable fabrics from patterns smuggled out of France by their Huguenot ancestors. Meline, the elder, had a passion and talent for floral rococo designs that caught the eye of London's elite, while Estelle, her younger sister, had skills at the loom that rivalled any master weaver. Together they fought to save the family business; their widowed father, Jean, could no longer run alone. With conflicts in the weaving industry, romantic entanglements, and secrets waiting to be revealed, the Mandeville family's world was already shattering. Then a murder and the influence of a fortune-teller changed everything. The Weaving Room is the first novel in The Spitalfields Chronicles, a multi-era historical fiction series set in London's Spitalfields.