| Carding | |
| Process of dis-entangling the fibres of the wool using a toothed instrument before spinning. The card would be made with teasels or metal teeth. | |
| Castellated | |
| With battlements | |
| Charter | |
| A document, usually given by a King or Queen, that gives a certain group of possessions or privileges. The Hudson's Bay and the East India Company charters gave them trading rights in a certain area. | |
| Clothier's mark | |
| A sign representing the name and reputation of a particular clothier. These marks usually had an angular design, usually incorporating a cross. The design is intended to resemble a shepherd's crook and often incorporates the clothier's initials. Clothier's often carved their marks on their mills, over a doorway or fireplace. |
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| Clothiers | |
| Cloth makers or cloth merchants | |
| Combing | |
| Long-staple, or long-fibred, wool is combed with metal combs before spinning to help the fibres line-up in the direction of the yarn. This makes the yarn stronger and is used for worsted cloths. | |
| Cree | |
| A major First Nations people that spread from Hudson Bay to Athabaska in Alberta. There are three kinds of Cree: Woodland Cree, Swampy Cree and Plains Cree. |
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| Crenellated | |
| With an indented or stepped shape similar to a castle wall or battlement. | |
| Crenellated | |
| With an indented or stepped shape similar to a castle wall or battlement. | |
| Crenellation | |
| With battlements or loopholes | |
| Crimped | |
| Naturally wavy wool | |
| Cruck | |
| One of paired curved timbers extending to ground in framework of house-roof | |
| Cupola | |
| A furnace for melting metals or a small dome on top of a building | |
| Ethnographic | |
| The study of different societies. | |
| Factor | |
| A person who buys and sells goods (eg cloth) for others. Factors bought cloth from local clothiers and sold it at Blackwell Hall in London. |
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| Feldspar | |
| Feldspars are the most abundant of the rock forming minerals. They can be found in most igneous and metamorphic rocks. |
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| Felt | |
| A cloth made from animal hair by pressing, heating or treating the hair with chemicals. | |
| Feoffees | |
| Trustees | |
| Fibre | |
| A natural or synthetic thread or filament which can be made into yarn. | |
| Flock | |
| Stuffing made from waste wool and old cloth | |
| Founderous | |
| Causing travellers to founder or get stuck in the mud | |
| Fulling | |
| The process of cleansing, shrinking and thickening cloth with heat, pressure and moisture. | |
| Fulling | |
| Thickening cloth | |
