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Title: Has Anyone heard of a Line Tinter?
Post by: AngelaF67 on Tuesday 21 March 23 12:40 GMT (UK)
I’ve come across an ancestors whose job was a Line Tinter does anyone know what this is as I can’t find anything on google it’s just showing tins of paint.

I thought maybe he tinted photos or images etc but he was a Cotton Weaver up until 1901 then he went to America and was a Line Tinter for a number of years before becoming a Loom Fixer so I’m presuming it might have something to do with weaving or colouring the cotton maybe.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

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Title: Re: Has Anyone heard of a Line Tinter?
Post by: fiddlerslass on Tuesday 21 March 23 12:53 GMT (UK)
Could it be tenter rather than tinter, as tenters are used in weaving?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenterhook
Title: Re: Has Anyone heard of a Line Tinter?
Post by: hanes teulu on Tuesday 21 March 23 13:18 GMT (UK)
The sale of a Wool factory was advertised in the Weekly Clarion (Jackson, Miss.) 1871 and the description of the equipment included -
"WOOL ROOM - ... 4 lines tenter bars ..."
Title: Re: Has Anyone heard of a Line Tinter?
Post by: AngelaF67 on Tuesday 21 March 23 13:53 GMT (UK)
Quote from: fiddlerslass on Tuesday 21 March 23 12:53 GMT (UK)
Could it be tenter rather than tinter, as tenters are used in weaving?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenterhook

Yes that’s a possibility, it could have been mis-spelled when they filled in the US census in 1910. It’s definitely something to do with the Cotton Mill as it is also on the Census straight after Line Tinter.

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