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Character's spoken with weavers offering family treasures (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

heirlooms

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'family treasures' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both related to property as well as being plural nouns.
Perhaps you can see an association between them that I can't see?

'character's spoken with weavers' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'character's' could be 'ms' and 'ms' is located in the answer.
This explanation may well be incorrect...

'offering' is the link.

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I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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