Piece of card used to pack out shield-shaped tillet block insert
Tillet stamps were a marketing device used for Exeter’s woollen cloth exports.
Pieces of woollen cloth for export were packed in cloth wrappers or tillets. Twenty or more wrapped pieces of cloth would be made up into a bale. An attractive mark, rather like a trademark, was stamped onto the tillet wrapper using a tillet block. The stamping was done in the workshop of a tilleter using a large tillet stamping press.
Tillet blocks were composite objects – the main block had recesses into which inserts could be placed. There were shield-shaped inserts with attractive, often heraldic designs. There were also smaller inserts for merchant names, merchant marks or lengths of cloth.
This is a piece of card that was placed under a shield-shaped tillet block insert. It was used to pack out a shield-shaped tillet block insert so that it was level with the tillet block itself thus making a clear print.
Pieces of woollen cloth for export were packed in cloth wrappers or tillets. Twenty or more wrapped pieces of cloth would be made up into a bale. An attractive mark, rather like a trademark, was stamped onto the tillet wrapper using a tillet block. The stamping was done in the workshop of a tilleter using a large tillet stamping press.
Tillet blocks were composite objects – the main block had recesses into which inserts could be placed. There were shield-shaped inserts with attractive, often heraldic designs. There were also smaller inserts for merchant names, merchant marks or lengths of cloth.
This is a piece of card that was placed under a shield-shaped tillet block insert. It was used to pack out a shield-shaped tillet block insert so that it was level with the tillet block itself thus making a clear print.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 67/2023/6
- Collection Class
- Social and industrial history
- Collection Area Region
- Northern Europe
- Material
- card | | | |
- Common Name
- piece of card used to pack out shield-shaped tillet block insert
- Simple Name
- stamp
- Period Classification
- Georgian (1714-1837)
- Production Town
- Exeter
- Production County
- Devon
- Production Country
- United Kingdom: England
- Production Person Initials
- Production Person Surname
- Production Year Low
- Production Year High
