Sunday, October 18, 2009

Tuckers

A cloth dresser or finisher, especially one who stretches cloth that comes from a weaver. A fuller. Someone who teases or burls cloth.

"Wool could not be spun without being combed in oil; nor would it take the dye when woven, unless divested of the oil. This is the proper business of the Fuller, provincially called, the Tucker."

Nathaniel Whittock, The complete book of trades (1837).

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