Tillet block
- Description
- Tillet blocks were used to stamp the outer wrapping of bales of cloth before they were exported from Exeter. This design features two dogs, a tree and an eagle.
- Accession Loan No.
- 1895/12/110
- Collection Class
- Social and industrial history
- Common Name
- tillet block
- Simple Name
- stamp
- Full Name
- tillet block
- Period Classification
- George III (1760-1811)
- Family Group
- Material
- wood; iron
- Collector / Excavator
- Davey, T B
- Collection Town
- Exeter
- Collection County
- Devon
- Collection Country
- United Kingdom: England
- Collection Area Region
- Northern Europe
- Collection Continent
- Europe
There are 10 comments
In Exwick there were three mills at one time. One mill latterly became a flour mill until the 1950s.
A lot of cloth was woven in farmhouses, by farmers’ wives.
Was Exeter part of the textile revolution?
It smells like the underground in London!
It smells really sweet.
The holes in them are there so that they could insert stamps.
It’s so light…. It is wood, but I don’t know what wood it is. It’s intriguing, the holes they’ve made.
In Iran they have pretty patterns on cloth. At school we made blocks out of lino.
This is a big stamp. Others are little monograms, possibly of the makers.
It relied on the old ways… There were people all around Exeter who tended to rely on bringing [their wool] to Exeter for finishing…. The industrial revolution really killed it off.