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Thursday, 18 March, 2010



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



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Scourer (cloth scourer)

The Clothier checked a new piece of woven cloth and then sent it to be cleaned or brayed by the scourer to get rid of oil, size and dirt. This might have been done in the fulling mill using sig and pig dung – not a nice job! After this first rough scouring, the cloth was called ‘say’ or ‘in the clean’.