jan 1, 1556 - raise

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In the process of cloth-finishing the nap was formerly raised by teazles set in an implement referred to as ‘handles’, and this was possibly a similar thing: 1556 <i>two payr of walker sheres and ij payr of lomes a shere borde and a rayse</i>, Halifax (Crossley145). The <i>Raizing Peark</i> mentioned in 1703 under ‘handles’ is likely to have been the wooden perch or frame over which the cloth was draped.

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