Benenden Walk - Walk Through Time
Benenden Walk - Walk Through Time
Benenden Walk - Walk Through Time
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Broadcloth<br />
Old Cloth Hall<br />
Broadcloth is the name given to densely-woven material, measuring up to 30 yards long (approximately 10 metres), by 5 foot<br />
wide (1.2 metres). The cloth was made from wool, carded and spun into yarn, then woven on broad looms. Weaving was a cottage<br />
industry dating from the medieval period. It was carried out in so many houses in the area, that it is estimated that a third of the<br />
Kentish cloth trade was centred around Cranbrook.<br />
Once woven, the broadcloth was fulled, a process where the oils and dirt in the cloth are washed out by pounding it with hammers<br />
driven by the wheels of watermills. Fulling thickens the cloth, which is then stretched on wooden frames, or tenters and held in<br />
place with tenterhooks – hence the expression meaning held in suspense.
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