wool refiner (tailor of long embroidered felt cloaks)

The craftsman who made felt cloaks from woollen linen. One phase of making broad-cloth is cleaning the wool before spinning, that is separating good-quality wool from heavier type. From the 16-17th century tailors of the Great Plain worked with fine or harder broad-cloth made by Transylvanian Saxons. So wool refiners did not have to do their jobs any more.

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