She would then be seen carrying a pail covered with a woollen cloth to the camp boiler.

Sixteenth-century labourers were meant to wear russet - a coarse woollen cloth.

The hooked thorns on the flowerheads of one cultivated kind of teasel were formerly used for combing woollen cloth and raising a nap on it.

Tenters were originally large wooden frames which were used as far back as the 14th century in the process of making woollen cloth.

Woollen cloth making was an important local industry in the medieval period.