Worsted
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Worsted is a high-quality type of wool yarn, the fabric made from this yarn, and a yarn weight category. The name derives from Worstead, a village in the English county of Norfolk. That village, toget
A blue worsted wool girl's dress from the United States, made in approximately 1878, from the collection of Conner Prairie
A former worsted mill in Hudson, Massachusetts
Worsted yarn made from Merino wool
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Fulling
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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
Worsted
…carded; instead it was washed, gilled and combed (using heated long-tooth metal combs), oiled and finally spun. When woven, worsteds were scoured but not fulled. Both worsted and woolen spun wool are used for knitted fabrics. Worsted wool fabric is typically used in the making of tailored garments such as suits…
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