ARKY 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Lost-Wax Casting, Retting, Wok
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This also had to do with primary and secondary clays. They don"t survive as well archeologically as other tools. Manufacture of flax; it is similar around the world. You take the stalks and have them in water, and they separate out. The different strands of the textiles then split in water. You take it out and pul it apart so that you can get individual strings, which are then set out to. It is beaten out and left to dry in the sun. You spin the fibres into one longer piece. You take the threads and weave them into a larger textile. This was a stripping off of all the animal oils on the wool. The most common method of doing so was to immerse the wool in urine. In roman times, fullers would leave these pots out on corners, so that men could relieve themselves in it, and they could collect it later so that they could full it.
