The planking of wool hats is generally done by machine, in some cases a form of fulling mill being used; but in all forms the agencies are heat, moisture, pressure, rubbing and turning.
After taking them out, hanging them up, and stretching them, the oil and fulling process is repeated according to the thickness of the skin, and until every part of it is full of oil.
Well, the cloth is gigged there on the big machines the first thing after it leaves the fulling mills and washers.
After the cloth comes out of the fulling mills it's 'bout twice as thick as when it goes in, and feels all stiff and heavy.
The purple-dyeing factories of Cissa near Rovigno, thefulling works of Pola and Trieste, and the potteries of Aquileia were known far and wide.
Many partly artificial channels conduct the water to flour and fulling mills on both sides of the stream, of which there are some fifty, the sound of the mill-wheels and the fulling-hammers mingling with the rush of the waters.
The fulling establishments of both Trieste and Pola were known far and wide.
Adjoining to it on the west side there is a small stream, on which they have erected a fulling mill; on the east is the lot, known by the name of Squam, watered likewise by a small rivulet, on which stands another fulling mill.
There had been trouble about fulling machinery in London as early as 1298.
In Newcastle the guild of fullers and dyers in their ordinances of 1477 regulated the price of fulling and shearing the various kinds of cloth by piece-work at so much a yard.
Fulling mill, a mill for fulling cloth as by means of pesties or stampers, which alternately fall into and rise from troughs where the cloth is placed with hot water and fuller's earth, or other cleansing materials.
Milled cloth, cloth that has been beaten in a fulling mill.
Defn: A part which acts by falling, as a stamp in a fulling mill, or the device in a spinning machine to arrest motion when a thread breaks.
To pass through a fulling mill; to full, as cloth.
Defn: To subject, as cloth or yarn, to the fulling process; to full.
Defn: The place or the works where the fulling of cloth is carried on.
Defn: The money or price paid for fulling or cleansing cloth.
To the more mature, Aaron Burson offered to rent his fulling mill and dwelling house near Union, describing them as being in "an elegant neighbourhood for the fulling business.
Some merchant clothiers also owned a fullingmill and a shop where the cloth was sold.
The fulling mill owner must append his seal of lead with his name and with his measurements.
I shall stand at a distance, you may be sure," quoth Sancho; "but God grant that it be not the fulling mills again.
This mill also contained a small dyeing and fulling plant for coloring and finishing the cloth woven by the farmers' wives and daughters.
Fulling became mechanized as heavy wooden hammers run by water- power replaced feet trampling the cloth covered with soap or fuller's clay.
No one owning a fulling mill may own a weaving loom.
For instance, the common law action of detinue could force return of cloth bailed for fulling or sheep bailed for pasturing, but could not address damages due to faulty work.
Fulling is followed by gigging, and in this process a nap more or less heavy is raised on the face of the goods by means of teasels.
After leaving the loom the cloth is placed in a fulling machine which condenses the fibers, thus increasing the density.
In the fulling operation, which comes next, the cloth is shrunk to its proper width and density, usually to a degree rendering it difficult to see the individual warp and filling threads, so closely are they matted together.
The object of fulling is to render woolen and worsted goods stronger and firmer in body.
To improve its appearance it is first subjected to the action of the fulling mill, with the result that the fibers of the warp and weft become entangled to such an extent that the cloth never unravels.
The finishing consists simply of scouring the cloth and notfulling it and then passing it through hot water baths between heavy rolls to remove all the soap.
The process of fulling includes three steps: cleansing, scouring, and condensing the fibers of the cloth.
The fulling or shrinking is effected by the application of moisture, heat, and pressure.
The most valuable are those derived from the fulling mill, being clean and of a bright color.
Raising flocks are those obtained from the dressing or raising gigs, and are applied to purposes similar to those for which fulling flocks are used.
In the treatment of broadcloth, doeskin, and all nap finished woolens, the fulling is carried to a point where the fibers become densely matted, obliterating all traces of the weave and giving the cloth the appearance of felt.
This is done in order that the meshes may be closed up in the fulling mill to insure a covering of threads.
Fulling is similar to felting, the principal object of each being to condense the fibers, thereby increasing the firmness.
If the finishing process is carried beyond fulling the texture is rendered hard and firm, the cloth thus losing its softness and elasticity.
There is only one trade, so far as we are aware, with respect to the practices of which any knowledge has been gained from the excavations at Pompeii--that of fulling and scouring cloth.
This block contains, besides several private houses of great beauty, the Fullonica, or establishment for the fulling and dyeing of woolen cloths.
Since the memorable adventure of the fulling mills," said Don Quixote, "I have never seen Sancho in such a fright as now; were I as superstitious as others his abject fear would cause me some little trepidation of spirit.
Passing on we came to a place called Pandy uchaf, or the higher Fulling mill.
Does not that mean the bridge of the fulling mill?
It is called the Pandy because there was formerly a fulling mill here, said to have been the first established in Wales; which is still to be seen, but which is no longer worked.
The place so called is a collection of ruinous houses, which put me in mind of the Fulling mills mentioned in “Don Quixote.
Davis built a fulling and carding mill near the bridge and operated that as well as a saw mill.
In 1866, a factory for condensing milk was built where the Kiernan fulling and carding mill stood.
A little farther down the stream were once very large woolen carding and fulling mills, where cloth was made of the finest quality.
Through his wife, Sarah McIntosh, Nathan Smith came into possession of a considerable portion of this tract and erected thereon a grist mill, a fulling mill and a store.
Bahrmann; further down the stream a feed mill, a saw mill and a fulling or wool-carding mill.
In the morning they found that this noise proceeded from somefulling mills in the neighborhood.
The devil take thee, man," said Don Quixote; "what has a helmet to do with fulling mills?
Plain low corsage, the top part encircled with a double fall of lace, forming a kind of berthe, and headed with a narrow fulling of crape, similar to that on the skirt.
When after hearing strange noises in the night Don Quixote sallies forth only to discover that the sounds come from fulling hammers instead of from giants, he rebukes the ill-timed merriment of his squire.
Am I, being a knight, to distinguish between sounds, and to know which are and which are not those of a fulling mill, more especially as I have never seen any fulling mills in my life?
The place so called is a collection of ruinous houses, which put me in mind of the Fulling mills mentioned in Don Quixote.
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