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True or false?
« on: Wednesday 19 September 18 13:41 BST (UK) »


I came across this last night and couldn't stop laughing.

When asked his occupation the guy replied Nail and woolly teeth maker. He was either a very sarcastic man or he had the oddest job going.

That's a first for me.  ???  ???  ???

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Re: True or false?
« Reply #1 on: Wednesday 19 September 18 14:50 BST (UK) »
I see on the previous census he was a Nail & Teazear Teeth Maker. 
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Re: True or false?
« Reply #2 on: Wednesday 19 September 18 15:08 BST (UK) »
Probably not human teeth but machinery/tools of some kind  8)
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Re: True or false?
« Reply #3 on: Wednesday 19 September 18 15:09 BST (UK) »
Just googled what a teazear was and it was a rope for informal corporal punishment.

As he also made nails I wonder if it was a cat-o'-nine-tails or something similar?

Gruesome.   :o


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Re: True or false?
« Reply #4 on: Wednesday 19 September 18 15:18 BST (UK) »
I think teazer as in teasing out wool prior to spinning into yarn.  Teeth for a teazer would be made in the same manner as nails I would have thought.

Sorry to be such a killjoy, instruments of torture sounded so much more interesting 😉
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Re: True or false?
« Reply #5 on: Wednesday 19 September 18 15:40 BST (UK) »


Spoilsport!!! But I do agree it sounds more like something that was used by weavers.

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« Reply #6 on: Wednesday 19 September 18 16:18 BST (UK) »

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Re: True or false?
« Reply #7 on: Wednesday 19 September 18 21:37 BST (UK) »
Teasels,the spiky buds of a thistle type plant were fixed (thousands of them) on a frame and were used to raise the nap on wool cloth such  as facecloth velour for the lovely red material used for tunics in the Guards regiments.
After the nap was raised the cloth was sometimes shaved giving a dense
fabric.
Previously the cloth to be napped was fulled using stale urine and subjected to the fulling hammers at the fulling mill where it was pounded to a very dense texture,
Then stretched on the teasing frame.This was tenting,so people who were tense and wound up were said to be “on tenterhooks”(not tenderhooks).
All part of our textile industry.
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People were paid for the stale urine they collected ,honestly!
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Re: True or false?
« Reply #8 on: Wednesday 19 September 18 21:48 BST (UK) »

People were paid for the stale urine they collected ,honestly!

Viktoria.

I believe you, Tony Robinson (Time Machine) did a series of programs on strangest jobs, and one was where he had to stamp on the unpleasant urine into the cloth to make it softer.

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