Fuller

A fuller, a worker who cleanses wool through the process of fulling. Fulling, also known as tucking or walking (spelt waulking in Scotland), is a step in woollen clothmaking which involves the cleansing of cloth (particularly wool) to eliminate oils, dirt, and other impurities, and making it thicker. The worker who does the job is…

Mudlarks

A mudlark is someone who scavenges in river mud for items of value, a term used especially to describe those who scavenged this way in London during the late 18th and 19th centuries.   Mudlarks would search the muddy shores of the River Thames at low tide for anything that could be sold; and sometimes,…

Sin-eater

  A sin-eater is a person who consumes a ritual meal in order to magically take on the sins of a person or household. Traditionally, the food was believed to absorb the sins of a recently deceased person, thus absolving that person’s soul. Consequently, sin-eaters supposedly carried the sins of all people whose souls they…

Elevators operators

Today we enter an elevator and press the button for which floor we want to go to. However, elevators weren’t always operated by the riders. Early elevators had operators who were in charge of getting the elevator where the passengers needed to go. Electronics would prove to be the demise of this profession. Anyone can…

Log driver

Log driving is a means of moving logs from a forest to sawmills and pulp mills downstream using the current of a river. It was the main transportation method of the early logging industry in Europe and North America. In the past time, they were usually small water-powered facilities located near the source of timber, which might be…

Ice Cutter

Do you remember what does kristoff do in the movie “Frozen”? In deed that job actually exist. Once upon a time, When lakes getting frozen during the winter time these were men who cut the ice from frozen lakes. After that the ice delivery men will transfer these ice to other places. Mostly it’s for…