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Cloth Making
Trowbridge Museum - Its fun, friendly and free!
 
Monday, 13 October, 2008

Trowbridge Museum - Its fun, friendly and free!
Trowbridge Museum - Its fun, friendly and free!
 
School Workshops

An exciting way to learn more about cloth making and wool processes in one of our School Workshop visits.

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Trowbridge Museum - Its fun, friendly and free!
Education at Trowbridge Museum
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Booking Info

All the information you need about booking a School visit using one of our teachers packs.

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Trowbridge Museum - Its fun, friendly and free!

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Cloth Making
An Introduction
Who Did What?
Clothier
Woolstapler
Dyer
Willower
Scribbler
Blender
Carder
Slubbing
Spinner
Quilley Winder
Warper
Weaver
Finishing:
• Burler
• Scourer
• Mender
• Fuller
• Tentering
• Raiser
• Shearer
• Presser
• Factor

 

Mender

Women mended the cloth , either ‘in the grease’, or in the ‘say’. The cloth was gradually pulled over a bar with the light behind it so that imperfections showed up. Any missing threads were filled in by hand, the women using a small needle and matching yarn. This job was never mechanised.


Mender at Work
Mender at Work
Menders with finished cloth
Menders with finished cloth

 
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