Tenterhook
These tenterhooks from Exeter were L-shaped staples placed at regular intervals on a rectangular wooden tenter frame. When cloth emerged from the fulling process it was stretched on these hooks, preventing it from shrinking - hence the phrase 'being on tenterhooks'.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 496/2005/5
- Category
- Antiquities
- Collection Class
- Exeter archaeology
- Collection Area Region
- Northern Europe
- Material
- iron
- Common Name
- tenterhook
- Simple Name
- tenterhook
- Period Classification
- Post Medieval (1500-1750)
