Activités artisanales sur la rive droite de la Vesle à Reims/Durocortorum by Émilie Jouhet, Michaël Brunet, Pierre Mathelart, Véronique Matterne

“…Unsuitable for the manufacture of pottery or terracotta elements, smectite clay is a “fuller’s earth” which, as its name indicates, can be used for treading and dyeing, within the vats or tubs wherein the textile fibers of the wool are softened and colored. The river levels also yielded an exceptional series of twenty-nine brushes, mostly fragments of wool brushes, all rather similar in type. …”
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