warp.

Since one loom could provide work for about six spinners, the
weaver had his wool spun by other spinners in their cottages.
Sometimes the master weaver had an apprentice or workman working
and living with him, who had free board and lodging and an annual
wage. Then a fuller made the cloth thick and dense by washing,
soaping, beating, and agitating it, with the use of a community
watermill which could be used by anyone for a fixed payment. The
cloth dried through the night on a rack outside the cottage. The
weaver then took his cloth, usually only one piece, to the weekly
market to sell. The weavers stood at the market holding up their
cloth. The cloth merchant who bought the cloth then had it dyed or
dressed according to his requirements. Its surface could be raised
with teazleheads and cropped or sheared to make a nap. Some cloth
was sold to tailors to make into clothes. Often a weaver had a
horse for travel, a cow for milk, chickens for eggs, perhaps a few
cattle, and some grazing land. Butchers bought, slaughtered, and
cut up animals to sell as meat. Some was sold to cooks, who sold
prepared foods. The hide was bought by the tanner to make into
leather. The leather was sold to shoemakers and glovemakers.
Millers bought harvested grain to make into flour. Flour was sold
to bakers to make into breads. Wood was bought by carpenters and by
coopers, who made barrels, buckets, tubs, and pails. Tilers,
oilmakers and rope makers also bought raw material to make into
finished goods for sale. Wheelwrights made ploughs, harrows, carts,
and later wagons. Smiths and locksmiths worked over their hot
fires.

Games with dice were sometimes played. In winter, youths ice-
skated with bones fastened to their shoes. They propelled
themselves by striking the ice with staves shod with iron. On
summer holydays, they exercised in leaping, shooting with the bow,
wrestling, throwing stones, and darting a thrown spear. The
maidens danced with timbrels. Since at least 1133, children's toys
included dolls, drums, hobby horses, pop guns, trumpets, and
kites.

The cold, indoors as well as outdoors, necessitated that people
wear ample and warm garments. Men and women of position dressed in
long full cloaks reaching to their feet, sometimes having short
full sleeves. The cloak generally had a hood and was fastened at
the neck with a brooch. Underneath the cloak was a simple gown
with sleeves tight at the wrist but full at the armhole, a