PORTAL:CLOTHING DYK 17

... that dried teasel pods (pictured) were used to raise the nap on woolen fabrics?
... that in Victor Hugo's novel Les Misérables, Cosette's wedding gown was made of Binche lace because Hugo remembered it from his youth as being a lace of beauty?
... that a heckling comb is used when hand processing flax to comb out and clean the fibers?

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