FULLING of Stockings, Caps, &c. should be performed somewhat differently; viz. either with the feet or the hands; or a kind of rack, or wooden machine, either armed with teeth of the same matter, or else horses or bullocks teeth. The ingredients made use of herein are, urine, green soap, white soap, and fuller's earth. But the urine also is reckoned prejudicial here. Women stockings, &c. should be filled with soap alone: for those that are knit, earth may be used with the soap. Indeed it is frequent to full these kinds of works with the mill, after the usual manner of cloth, &c. But that is too coarse and violent a manner, and apt to damage the work unless it be very strong.
FULLING of Stockings, Caps, &c
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