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FULLING, is the art or act of cleanfing, beating, and pref-
fing cloths, fluffs, and {lockings, to render them ftronger, clo-
fer, and firmer, called alfo milling.
The Fulling of cloths and other fluffs is performed by a water
mill, thence called a Fulling or fcouring mill.
Thefe mills differ not much from corn mills, except in what
relates to the mill-ftones and hopper; and there are fome which
ferve indifferently for either ufe, cloths being fulled and corn
ground by the motion of the lame wheel.
And in fome places, and particularly in France, the fullers are
icSIled millers, as milling fluffs and grinding corn both at the
jfam^ time.
The principal parts of the Fulling mill are the wheel, with
its trundle, which gives a motion to the tree or fpindle, whofe
teeth communicate it to the peftles or {tampers, which are here-
by raifed up and let fall alternately, according as its teeth catch
on or quit a kind of latch in the middle of each peftle.
The peftles and troughs are made of wood, each trough ha-
ving at leaft two, and fometimes three peftles, as the owner mall
think fit, or according to the force of the ftream of water.
In thefe troughs are put the cloths, fluffs, &c. that are to be
fulled ; then, the current of water being let fall on the wheel,
the peftles are fucceflively raifed and let fall upon the cloth, &c.
in the troughs, and by their weight and velocity ftamp and prefs
the fluffs very ftrongly, which, by this means, become thickened.
In Fulling they fometimes make ufe of urine, fometimes of
fullers earth, and fometimes foap.
Thefe fluffs are prepared to receive the firfl impreftions of the
peftle by laying them in water and urine; then in fullers earth
and water; and laftly in foap diflblved in hot water.
Soap alone would do very well, but that it is expenfive, tho*
fullers earth, in the way of the Englifh dreffmg, is fcarce inferior
to it; but then it muft be well cleared of all ftones and grttti-
neffes, which are apt to make holes in the fluff.
As to urine, that is accounted prejudicial, not fo much upon
account of its fmell, but its fharpnels and faltnefs, which is apt
to render the fluffs dry and harfh.
The true method of Fulling with foap is delivered by Monf.
Colinet, in an authentic memoir on that fubjecf, fupported by
experiments made by order of the Marquis de Louvois, then fu-
perintendent of the arts and manufactories of France. The fub-
ftance of which is as follows :
A coloured cloth of about forty-five ells is to be laid in the
ufual manner in the trough of a Fulling mill, without firfi: foak-
ina; it in water, as is the common practice in many places.
Fifteen pounds of foap will be required to full this trough cf
3 ?1q&?
FULLING, is the art or act of cleanfing, beating, and pref-
fing cloths, fluffs, and {lockings, to render them ftronger, clo-
fer, and firmer, called alfo milling.
The Fulling of cloths and other fluffs is performed by a water
mill, thence called a Fulling or fcouring mill.
Thefe mills differ not much from corn mills, except in what
relates to the mill-ftones and hopper; and there are fome which
ferve indifferently for either ufe, cloths being fulled and corn
ground by the motion of the lame wheel.
And in fome places, and particularly in France, the fullers are
icSIled millers, as milling fluffs and grinding corn both at the
jfam^ time.
The principal parts of the Fulling mill are the wheel, with
its trundle, which gives a motion to the tree or fpindle, whofe
teeth communicate it to the peftles or {tampers, which are here-
by raifed up and let fall alternately, according as its teeth catch
on or quit a kind of latch in the middle of each peftle.
The peftles and troughs are made of wood, each trough ha-
ving at leaft two, and fometimes three peftles, as the owner mall
think fit, or according to the force of the ftream of water.
In thefe troughs are put the cloths, fluffs, &c. that are to be
fulled ; then, the current of water being let fall on the wheel,
the peftles are fucceflively raifed and let fall upon the cloth, &c.
in the troughs, and by their weight and velocity ftamp and prefs
the fluffs very ftrongly, which, by this means, become thickened.
In Fulling they fometimes make ufe of urine, fometimes of
fullers earth, and fometimes foap.
Thefe fluffs are prepared to receive the firfl impreftions of the
peftle by laying them in water and urine; then in fullers earth
and water; and laftly in foap diflblved in hot water.
Soap alone would do very well, but that it is expenfive, tho*
fullers earth, in the way of the Englifh dreffmg, is fcarce inferior
to it; but then it muft be well cleared of all ftones and grttti-
neffes, which are apt to make holes in the fluff.
As to urine, that is accounted prejudicial, not fo much upon
account of its fmell, but its fharpnels and faltnefs, which is apt
to render the fluffs dry and harfh.
The true method of Fulling with foap is delivered by Monf.
Colinet, in an authentic memoir on that fubjecf, fupported by
experiments made by order of the Marquis de Louvois, then fu-
perintendent of the arts and manufactories of France. The fub-
ftance of which is as follows :
A coloured cloth of about forty-five ells is to be laid in the
ufual manner in the trough of a Fulling mill, without firfi: foak-
ina; it in water, as is the common practice in many places.
Fifteen pounds of foap will be required to full this trough cf
3 ?1q&?