- "on tenterhooks",
meaning in a
state of
nervous tension.
There were
tentergrounds wherever cloth was made, and as a
result the word "tenter" is found...
-
pegged out on
hooks in the
surrounding fields.
These were
known as
tentergrounds. From the mid-18th century,
Petticoat Lane
became a
centre for manufacturing...
- the
cloth would retain its
shape and size as it dried. Historically,
tentergrounds (alternatively, tenter-fields),
large open
spaces full of tenters, wherever...
-
weaving industry in and
around Spitalfields (see
Petticoat Lane and the
Tenterground) in East London. In Wandsworth,
their gardening skills benefited the...
- tenterhooks). The area
where the
tenters were
erected was
known as a
tenterground.
Cloth would also have the nap
raised by
napping or gigging. The surface...
-
Their settlement began in the area
beyond the
Spitalfields known as the
Tenterground,
formerly an
enclosed area
where Flemish weavers stretched and dried...
- such as
drying clothes after process and
dying in
fields known as
tentergrounds. Some were dangerous, such as the
manufacture of
gunpowder or the proving...
- At that time it
consisted of the
southern part of
Lolesworth Field, a
tenterground to its
south and a
spinning and
twisting ground with
gardens to the south...
- for
local dyers and clothiers. A 1392
survey of the town
mentions tentergrounds:
fields of
racks for
drying the
cloth and five
fulling mills. Where...
-
chapels in the area. More
humble weavers dwellings were
congregated in the
Tenterground. The
Spitalfields Mathematical Society was
established in 1717. In 1846...
