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Ponting gave an account of cloth finishing in which he mentioned the use of teasels to raise a pile or nap on wool cloth. The present note describes these teasels, and their growth, which has declined considerably, although no substitute for their gentle action on the finest cloths has been found. As Kenneth Ponting indicated, raised cloths are a speciality of the West of England woollen industry, and it is significant that teasel growing is now restricted to a small area of south Somerset near Taunton. John Billingsley, writing on Somerset agriculture in 1795, stated that ‘teasels are much cultivated’ in that county. They were formerly grown also in Gloucester and Wiltshire, and Arthur Young wrote of teasels being grown in Essex in rotation with medicinal herbs. According to Loudon the two main centres were Essex and the West of England.
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