teasels

• “She was drawn to nettles and brambles and deadly nightshade and teasels and other lingering signs of ancient human habitation.”

  The Guardian: Margaret Drabble | Trespassing

• “Christiane, I am not a globetrotter, but I share your love for “natural objects” like drifwood from a nearby deserted beach, branches, bark, foliage, dried teasels, berries ... (the list is longer)”

  grimpette - French Word-A-Day

• “Christiane, I am not a globetrotter, but I share your love for “natural objects” like drifwood from a nearby deserted beach, branches, bark, foliage, dried teasels, berries... the list is longer”

  grimpette - French Word-A-Day

• “They are not unlike a field of teasels in blossom -- there are the thorny points of this strange plant, and the delicate and exceedingly beautiful blossom beside, resting on the very points of a hundred lances, with their lovely lilac bloom.”

  The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No 3, September, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy.

• “Those who have lived where teasels grow will understand this illustration.”

  The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No 3, September, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy.

• “The operation of napping is performed by passing the cloth in a tightly stretched condition over a revolving cylinder covered with teasels or steel hooks.”

  Textiles For Commercial, Industrial, and Domestic Arts Schools; Also Adapted to Those Engaged in Wholesale and Retail Dry Goods, Wool, Cotton, and Dressmaker's Trades

• “This is accomplished by passing the face of the matted cloth against a cylinder covered with sharp pointed teasels which draw out the fibers from the yarn.”

  Textiles For Commercial, Industrial, and Domestic Arts Schools; Also Adapted to Those Engaged in Wholesale and Retail Dry Goods, Wool, Cotton, and Dressmaker's Trades

• “Fulling is followed by gigging, and in this process a nap more or less heavy is raised on the face of the goods by means of teasels.”

  Textiles For Commercial, Industrial, and Domestic Arts Schools; Also Adapted to Those Engaged in Wholesale and Retail Dry Goods, Wool, Cotton, and Dressmaker's Trades

• “The twisted teasels lose their decussation, but in doing so the leaves are not left in a disorderly dispersion, but a distinct new arrangement takes its place, which is to be assumed as the normal one for the ancestors of the teasel family.”

  Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation

• “In the teasels this screw-arrangement has disappeared, and has been replaced by a decussate grouping.”

  Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation

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