What did a stover do?

[Malcolm Bull]

I have several entries on my Calderdale Companion for people who worked in the textile industry as a stover / stuff stover / stover in a dye works.  Does anyone know what the process of stoving involved or how the process changed the stuff (ie cloth)?  Was it simply for drying the cloth?

Malcolm

[Jamjar]

https://www.fibre2fashion.com/industry-article/7884/corn-husk-fibre-for-production-of-green-fabrics

http://rmhh.co.uk/occup/s.html

Jamjar

[stanmapstone]

Basically a Stover dried goods in a hot chamber. Also a Stover, cotton cloth, was in charge of a stove in which finished cloth was steam dried to give it a wrinkled or puckered effect.

Stan

[stanmapstone]

Another definition

[Malcolm Bull]

Thanks, Stan.  That seems to be the job my people were doing.

Sorry, Jamjar, both your suggestions seem unlikely here.  My stovers were involved in cloth productiion, not mining, and I think producing fibre from corn husks was rare in 19th century Yorkshire

Best wishes and thanks again

Malcolm Bull