Didascalicon, Book II: the sciences, their parts and their discipline
Chapter XXII. On wool-working
Wool-working includes all kinds of weaving, sewing and twisting, which are done by hand, needle, spindle, awl, reel, comb, bark, curling iron, cylinder, or any other instruments whatever: from any material of flax or wool, and every kind of scraped skins or those having hair, also hemp, or cork, rushes, hair, flocks, or any other such thing, which can be turned to the use of garments, coverings, linens, cloaks, rugs, carpets, curtains, chamber vessels, felts, webs, nets, ropes. Also the straws from which men are accustomed to weave hats and baskets: all these pursuits pertain to wool-working.