Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Objects Facet
3. Furnishings and Equipment (hierarchy name)
4. Tools and Equipment (hierarchy name)
5. equipment
6. [equipment by material processed]
7. textile working equipment
8. [textile fabricating tools and equipment]

Additional parents:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Objects Facet
3. Furnishings and Equipment
4. Furnishings
5. furnishings
6. furnishings by form or function
7. furniture
8. furniture by form or function
9. seating furniture
10. multiple-seating furniture
11. benches
12. benches by form or function

Anotations

Scope note:

Four-legged bench, typically made of wood and asymmetrically built with one side raised higher than the other, designed to facilitate the manual textile carding process. One textile card, or sharp surface fitted with wires, is slipped into a slot on the bench's raised side, while the second card is manually manipulated by a user straddling the bench. The user is forced to change the grip on the lower card as they work the fibers between the two cards. A wooden drum is often attached to the bench's lower side, around which the smoothened wool gathers after it encounters the cards.