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The original craft of the Clothworkers was the finishing of woven woollen cloth: fulling it to mat the fibres and remove the grease, drying it on tenter frames (from which derives the expression ‘to be on tenterhooks’), raising the nap with teasels and shearing it to a uniform finish. Clothworkers include: * Dubbere - cloth dubber, one who raises the nap of cloth* Felter - cleaner and thickener...