The Billeaud House comes from the Billeaud Sugar Plantation in Broussard, Louisiana; it was built prior to the Civil War. Today it is used as a spinning and weaving cottage.

One of the looms is an original being 150 years old. The other is a replica, built locally by 72-year old Mr. Whitney Breaux for the Bicentennial.

Homespun blankets and clothes were woven from white cotton, native to Louisiana, and brown cotton introduced from Mexico to the Acadians by the Spaniards.