The Worshipful Company of Clothworkers is one of the Livery Companies of the City of London. It was incorporated by Royal Charter in 1528, following the merger of two older guilds: the Fullers and the
The Livery Hall of the Clothworkers' Company in 1859.
Armorial window with the arms of the Worshipful Company of Clothworkers, along with those of its predecessor companies—the Shearmen and the Fullers.
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Fulling, also known as tucking or walking, is a step in woollen clothmaking which involves the cleansing of woven cloth to eliminate oils, dirt, and other impurities, and to make it shrink by friction
Scotswomen walking (fulling) woollen cloth, singing a waulking song, 1772 (engraving made by Thomas Pennant on one of his tours)
Manual trampling, drawing after an Ancient Roman fresco in the Fullonica of Stephanus, Pompeii. A fullonica is a fullery and laundry shop.
Fulling cloth by letting a waterfall agitate it
A driving-stock fulling mill from Georg Andreas Böckler's Theatrum Machinarum Novum, 1661