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  2. Manufacturers of fly tying materials and tools - Wikipedia

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    The types of materials and tools that are produced include specialized fly tying hooks, metal and glass beads, feathers, thread, dubbing (animal or synthetic fibers used to coat threads), tinsel, wire, chenille, fly tying vises, tools to assist in manipulating materials, and a variety of other synthetic materials used in fly tying.

  3. Fulling - Wikipedia

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    Scotswomen walking (fulling) woollen cloth, singing a waulking song, 1772 (engraving made by Thomas Pennant on one of his tours). Fulling, also known as tucking or walking (Scots: waukin, hence often spelt waulking in Scottish English), is a step in woollen clothmaking which involves the cleansing of woven cloth (particularly wool) to eliminate oils, dirt, and other impurities, and to make it ...

  4. Tenterhook - Wikipedia

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    Tenter hook in an 1822 trade catalogue, published by H. Barns & Sons, of Birmingham, England Tenterhooks on what may be the world's last remaining 18th-century tenter frames at Otterburn Mill, Northumberland Wool cloth stretched on tenterhooks on a tenterframe Close-up

  5. Talk:Fulling - Wikipedia

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    If Tuck Mills and Fulling mills are precisely the same thing, it would appear to me that 'Tuck Mill' was far and away the most common term used in Ireland. 193.1.172.104 17:28, 3 May 2007 (UTC) I Have eben unable to discover a difference between Fulling Mills, Walk Mills, Tucking Mills, and Welsh Pandys.

  6. Category:Fulling mills in England - Wikipedia

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  7. Water wheel - Wikipedia

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    Fulling mills and steel mills may have spread from Islamic Spain to Christian Spain in the 12th century. Industrial water mills were also employed in large factory complexes built in al-Andalus between the 11th and 13th centuries. [92] The engineers of the Islamic world developed several solutions to achieve the maximum output from a water wheel.

  8. Leeds Industrial Museum at Armley Mills - Wikipedia

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    A document of 1707 describes them as fulling mills. One contained two wheels and four fulling stocks, while another was used to grind corn mill and two fulling stocks'. The mills expanded and by 1788 were equipped with five waterwheels driving eighteen fulling stocks. [1] Fulling was a necessary but dirty process where woven wool is felted.

  9. Template:DYK hook checklist - Wikipedia

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    |interest= refers to whether the hook is interesting and "hooky". In cases where a nomination has had multiple ALT hooks proposed, |alt= may be used to specify which ALT is being reviewed (inputs of both |alt=2 format and |alt=ALT2 format are accepted). For the original hook, leave this field blank.