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Glossary Term: garment stretchers

Glossary Definition: Flat wooden items on which knitted garments are placed to give them their final shape and size.

Example selection of items including winding wheel, garment stretchers, yarn cones, records and ephemera from Turnbull & Clark [Image courtesy of Hawick Museum and Gallery ref. HAKMG 1.30]

 

 



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