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What do you call that room in a castle where the women make cloth? I'm think 'spinnery', but I'm not sure if that's a word or not.
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A spinnery for making thread. And a loomery or a weavery for making cloth out of thread. I'd suspect a loomery for the castle proper; ie a room set off for a gentlewoman/women and her/their attendants to engage in the craft. Possibly a loomhall for a large castle; though loomhall along with weaver's hall and weavery feel more like they were originally used as names for commercial ventures employing townspeople or newly freed serfs in villages. Could be wrong: loomery is used as a name for medieval&later commercial cloth-making factories.
Very odd that definitions of the four words aren't easily findable on the Web considering how important they were in the transition from the feudal economy through mercantilism into the industrial economy. But then I can't easily find freedmen in reference to kicking serfs off their hereditary lands and into towns and villages when land became more valuable for growing flax and as pasture for raising sheep than for subsistance agriculture, and labor became more valuable for producing cloth as a tradegood than for tending food crops. For that matter, I can't even pop up definitions of tradegood rather than trade good, nor of clothmaking rather than cloth making.
This is getting to be like accidentally stepping into a parallel worldline that almost matches ones own
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