A-B C-F G-K L-O P-R S-V W-Z
Carding
  Process of dis-entangling the fibres of the wool using a toothed instrument before spinning. The card would be made with teasels or metal teeth.
Castellated
  With battlements
Charter
  A document, usually given by a King or Queen, that gives a certain group of possessions or privileges.  The Hudson's Bay and the East India Company charters gave them trading rights in a certain area.
Clothier's mark
  A sign representing the name and reputation of a particular clothier.  These marks usually had an angular design, usually incorporating a cross.  The design is intended to resemble a shepherd's crook and often incorporates the clothier's initials.  Clothier's often carved their
marks on their mills, over a doorway or fireplace.
Clothiers
  Cloth makers or cloth merchants
Combing
  Long-staple, or long-fibred, wool is combed with metal combs before spinning to help the fibres line-up in the direction of the yarn. This makes the yarn stronger and is used for worsted cloths.
Cree
  A major First Nations people that spread from Hudson Bay to Athabaska in Alberta.  There are three kinds of Cree: Woodland Cree, Swampy Cree and Plains Cree.

Crenellated
  With an indented or stepped shape similar to a castle wall or battlement.
Crenellated
  With an indented or stepped shape similar to a castle wall or battlement.
Crenellation
  With battlements or loopholes
Crimped
  Naturally wavy wool
Cruck
  One of paired curved timbers extending to ground in framework of house-roof
Cupola
  A furnace for melting metals or a small dome on top of a building
Ethnographic
  The study of different societies.
Factor
  A person who buys and sells goods (eg cloth) for others.  Factors bought cloth from local clothiers and sold it at Blackwell Hall in London.

Feldspar
  Feldspars are the most abundant of the rock forming minerals. They can be found in most igneous and metamorphic rocks.

Felt
  A cloth made from animal hair by pressing, heating or treating the hair with chemicals.
Feoffees
  Trustees
Fibre
  A natural or synthetic thread or filament which can be made into yarn.
Flock
  Stuffing made from waste wool and old cloth
Founderous
  Causing travellers to founder or get stuck in the mud
Fulling
  The process of cleansing, shrinking and thickening cloth with heat, pressure and moisture.
Fulling
  Thickening cloth