Clothing, SARTORIAN Trades V.
Preparation of stuffs;
- Making several vegetable or animal substances into Thred.( from substance in to thread )
- TWISTING, tortion, wreath, writhing, twine, winding.
- SPINNING, Spinster, Rock, Distaff.
- Ioyning such Threds together into Cloth. ( from threads in to clothes )
- WEAVING, Texture, Contexture, Loom, Web, braid, woven, Hur∣dle, Shuttle, Wicker, Matt.
- KNITTING.
- Thickning and colouring such Cloth. ( from clothes in to coloured clothes )
- FULLING, milling, Fuller.
- DYING, stain, Tincture, tinge, in grain.
Making of Stuffs into Vests; either by
- Vniting necessary, and cutting off unnecessary parts. ( from clothes in to different forms )
- SOWING, Stitch, Seam-ster, Suture, Welt, Needle, dearn, quilt, draw cloth, rip.
- CLIPPING, Scissors, shear, shorn, cut.
- Placing together the parts in ‖ greater, or lesser plicatures.
- FOLDING, wrap, lap, pleit, clinching, clutching, doubling, invelop.
- CURLING, crisping, frizling, furling.
Preserving of such Stuffs or Vests clean
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- Things are put into, and agitated in the water; to which may be op∣posed the putting upon them other bodies of a more gross consistence; styled
- WASHING, scouring, Lotion, rince, Laver, Laundress, gargling.
- SMEARING, daubing, anoint, ointment, Vnction, greaze, chrism; and many with [be] as bespaul, spit, spue, sprinkle.
- Water is imbibed and communicated to the thing; to which may be adjoyned, for its affinity, the putting of things into liquor, in order to the communicating of some new quality to such liquor.
- SOAKING, steeping, embrewing, macerating, watering Land, &c. bathing, imbibe, sinke, sop, brewis, embrew.
- INFUSION, watering Fish, &c. macerate, Decoction, impregnate.
- By external Motion of or upon them, ‖ more, or less violent.
- RUBBING, scrape, Friction, Frication, scrub, chafe, Attrition, fret, gall, scowr, taw, grate.
- WIPING, stroke, terse, handkerchief, towel, napkin.
- By Instruments to seperate those minuter bodies which adhere to the superficies.
- BRUSHING, sweeping, Beesom, Whisk, Brush, Broom, Maukin.
- COMBING, carding, currying.
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