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]
9. textile machines

Anotations

Scope note:

Mechanized devices designed to increase the thickness, compactness, and consistency of woolen fibers by subjecting woolen cloth to moisture, heat, friction, and pressure. Woolen cloth is first submerged in a vessel where it is treated with liquid; the wet cloth is then removed from the vessel by means of cylindrical rollers which agigate and beat the cloth before transferring it to a fulling box to be shrunk.