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Record 1 1997-09-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Textile Industries
  • Textiles: Preparation and Processing
CONT

The dried prickly flower-head or bur of the fuller's teasel, used for teasing or dressing cloth so as to raise a nap on the surface ... The object..is to raise up the loose fibres of the woollen yarn into a nap by scratching it either with thistle-heads called teasels ... .

Key term(s)
  • teasle head
  • teasle top
  • thistle head
  • teazel head
  • teazel top
  • teasels
  • teazels
  • bur
  • burr

French

Domaine(s)
  • Industries du textile
  • Apprêt et traitements divers (Textiles)
CONT

Cardère : chardon à foulon : doit son nom au fait que son inflorescence séchée servait au cardage des laines. [...] Chardon foulon ou chardon bonnetier : la cardère. On l'utilisait dans l'industrie des apprêts pour garnir les laineuses, machines tirant le poil des tissus de laine ou de coton.

CONT

Chardonner : Faire ressortir les poils d'une étoffe avec des chardons à foulon [chardons végétaux] ou des chardons métalliques pour la rendre [duveteuse].

Spanish

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