Broadcloth
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Broadcloth is a dense, plain woven cloth, historically made of wool. The defining characteristic of broadcloth is not its finished width but the fact that it was woven much wider and then heavily mill
Wool broadcloth jacket, c. 1830. LACMA M.65.8a-d
Littoinen broadcloth factory, Finland
The broadcloth market at ’s-Hertogenbosch, near the historic Duchy of Brabant, circa 1530
1878 woman's riding habit/hunting dress in dark green habit cloth. Scotland. LACMA M.2007.211.779.1a-b
Trip hammer
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A trip hammer, also known as a tilt hammer or helve hammer, is a massive powered hammer, usually raised by a cam and then released to fall under the force of gravity. Historically, trip hammers were o
Broadcloth
…was woven much wider (typically 50 to 75% wider than its finished width) and then heavily milled (traditionally the cloth was worked by heavy wooden trip hammers in hot soapy water) in order to shrink it to the required width. The milling process draws the yarns much closer together than could be achieved in the…
A 1960s trip hammer placed at Trattenbach village, Lower Austria
The same trip hammer in operation, shaping a folding knife at the strike area
Model of a grain processing workshop with a trip hammer. China, Eastern Han dynasty, 25-220 CE
A water powered trip hammer from the Nong Shu by Wang Zhen (fl. 1290–1333)