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  2. Iron in folklore - Wikipedia

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    Surrounding a cemetery with an iron fence was thought to contain the souls of the dead. Burying an iron knife under the entrance to one's home was alleged to keep witches from entering. "Cold iron" is a substitute name used for various animals and incidences considered unlucky by Irish fishermen. A similar phenomenon has been found with ...

  3. History of clothing and textiles - Wikipedia

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    Scraps of wool fabric from the Bronze Age and Iron Age have been found in the salt mines of Hallstatt Austria. The fabric scraps were residuals of rags used in the mines. The rags, in turn were scraps from worn out garments. The Bronze age fabrics are relatively coarse in part due to the coarse wool available from the sheep at the time.

  4. Conservation and restoration of textiles - Wikipedia

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    During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, many silk manufacturers treated their fabrics with metallic salts (usually containing tin and iron) to improve their drape and feel; as silk was priced by weight, this process also replaced some of the considerable (one-fifth) weight lost through the removal of sericin from silk fibres in the ...

  5. Ageing (textiles) - Wikipedia

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    In stoving, temperature or heating was the consideration, while it ignored moisture application. When block printed material (one of the earliest forms of printing textiles) containing iron or aluminium mordants was thought to require merely heat to adhere to fabric, it was used. Those chambers were named "stoves."

  6. Blocking (textile arts) - Wikipedia

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    Cold blocking (or spray blocking) uses no heat and less water to achieve the same result by spraying water upon the material instead of immersing the fabric. Steam blocking uses a steamer or steam iron, but without applying direct pressure to the item.

  7. Bed hangings - Wikipedia

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    Some medieval bed canopies and curtains were suspended from ceiling beams. In English these canopies were known as a "hung celour". The fabric canopy concealed an iron frame with iron curtain rods.These beds can be seen in manuscript illuminations, paintings, and engravings, showing cords suspending the front of the canopy to the ceiling.

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