Then a fuller made the cloth
thick and dense by washing, soaping, beating, and agitating it,
with the use of a community watermill which could be used by
anyone for a fixed payment. The cloth dried through the night on a
rack outside the cottage. The weaver then took his cloth, usually
only one piece, to the weekly market to sell. The weavers stood at
the market holding up their cloth. The cloth merchant who bought
the cloth then had it dyed or dressed according to his
requirements. Its surface could be raised with teazleheads and
cropped or sheared to make a nap. Some cloth was sold to tailors
to make into clothes. Often a weaver had a horse for travel, a cow
for milk, chickens for eggs, perhaps a few cattle, and some
grazing land. Butchers bought, slaughtered, and cut up animals to
sell as meat. Some was sold to cooks, who sold prepared foods. The
hide was bought by the tanner to make into leather. The leather
was sold to shoemakers and glovemakers. Millers bought harvested
grain to make into flour. Flour was sold to bakers to make into
breads. Wood was bought by carpenters and by coopers, who made
barrels, buckets, tubs, and pails. Tilers, oil-makers and rope-
makers also bought raw material to make into finished goods for
sale. Wheelwrights made ploughs, harrows, carts, and later wagons.
Smiths and locksmiths worked over their hot fires.
Games with dice were sometimes played.
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