Dyeing The dyehouse at a Witney mill, 1898. Dyeing could be carried out at various stages of production as long the wool was clean enough to take up the dye evenly. Some hanks of yarn were dyed in different colours before weaving if they were needed for the headings of the blankets. Many blankets were bleached white (or left unbleached) and not dyed, but it was common to have coloured stripes woven into the top and bottom of blankets. These stripes were known as 'laces' in the trade and marked the places where each blanket was to be cut off from the long lengths of woven blanket material known as a 'stockful' (a stockful was usually the length of 24 blankets). |
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