Rub down any damaged areas with a coarse cloth and sandpaper before applying two or three fresh coats of outdoor paint.

It was the seat of the largest weaving colony in the province, and manufactured both coarse cloth and fine muslin.

At present the manufacture of paper has ceased, but the weaving of coarse cloth still gives employment to more than 100 looms.

Only the agricultural and rural masses with their need for coarse cloth sustained the low quality home industry.

One of them, called a circular hackle or lapper, was generally adopted wherever hemp was spun for coarse cloth.