| Carding |
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Process of dis-entangling the fibres of the wool using a toothed instrument before spinning. The card would be made with teasels or metal teeth.
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| Castellated |
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With battlements
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| Charter |
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A document, usually given by a King or Queen, that gives a certain group of possessions or privileges. The Hudson's Bay and the East India Company charters gave them trading rights in a certain area.
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| Clothier's mark |
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A sign representing the name and reputation of a particular clothier. These marks usually had an angular design, usually incorporating a cross. The design is intended to resemble a shepherd's crook and often incorporates the clothier's initials. Clothier's often carved their
marks on their mills, over a doorway or fireplace.
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| Clothiers |
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Cloth makers or cloth merchants
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| Combing |
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Long-staple, or long-fibred, wool is combed with metal combs before spinning to help the fibres line-up in the direction of the yarn. This makes the yarn stronger and is used for worsted cloths.
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| Cree |
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A major First Nations people that spread from Hudson Bay to Athabaska in Alberta. There are three kinds of Cree: Woodland Cree, Swampy Cree and Plains Cree.
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| Crenellated |
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With an indented or stepped shape similar to a castle wall or battlement.
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| Crenellated |
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With an indented or stepped shape similar to a castle wall or battlement.
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| Crenellation |
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With battlements or loopholes
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| Crimped |
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Naturally wavy wool
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| Cruck |
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One of paired curved timbers extending to ground in framework of
house-roof
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| Cupola |
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A furnace for melting metals or a small dome on top of a building
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| Ethnographic |
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The study of different societies.
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| Factor |
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A person who buys and sells goods (eg cloth) for others. Factors bought cloth from local clothiers and sold it at Blackwell Hall in London.
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| Feldspar |
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Feldspars are the most abundant of the rock forming minerals. They can be found in most igneous and metamorphic rocks.
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| Felt |
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A cloth made from animal hair by pressing, heating or treating the hair with chemicals.
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| Feoffees |
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Trustees
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| Fibre |
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A natural or synthetic thread or filament which can be made into yarn.
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| Flock |
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Stuffing made from waste wool and old cloth
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| Founderous |
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Causing travellers to founder or get stuck in the mud
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| Fulling |
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The process of cleansing, shrinking and thickening cloth with heat, pressure and moisture.
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| Fulling |
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Thickening cloth
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