tenterhook (tenterhook)
Descriptions
These tenterhooks from Exeter were L-shaped staples placed at regular intervals on a rectangular wooden tenter frame. When cloth emerged from the fulling process it was stretched on these hooks, preventing it from shrinking - hence the phrase 'being on tenterhooks'.
This object is on display at RAMM in the Making History gallery.
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