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Soiron Thistle Drying Shed

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Soiron Thistle Drying Shed

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Soiron Thistle Drying Shed

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Location: Pepinster, Verviers, Liège, Wallonie, Wallonia, Belgium

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Perrine

November 3, 2021

Pierced with 160 holes, this former dryer bears witness to a bygone activity: that of fuller's thistle culture! It was used in the woolen industry for the hand finishing of woolen sheets.

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Bernd 🌲🦌🍄🥾

December 31, 2023

In the immediate vicinity of the castle, the huge dimensions of this imposing 17th and 18th century farmhouse, located in the heart of the village, recall all the power and wealth of the lord who held local power.

The complex consists of three wings arranged in a U shape around a courtyard.

Around 1836, the adjoining barn was extended to include a brick thistle dryer, a testament to the intensive wool industry in the region.

Brushes filled with thistles were used in the textile industry in the wool production process to bring out the fluffy down of the sheet.

The numerous snuffers in the masonry ensured sufficient air circulation to facilitate the drying of the thistles.
Source: beauxvillages.be/decouvertes/sechoir-a-chardons-soiron

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AnneTanne

May 2, 2021

In the land of Herve there are two villages, Olne and Soiron, which still have buildings in which tea bulbs used to be dried.

The dry heads of the teasel were used to 'wool' luxury fabrics. To give these fabrics a silky appearance, it was necessary to 'wool' them after carding, weaving and fulling, to comb them endlessly to loosen the thousands of small woolly hairs and to leave a fluffy felt on the surface, soft, warm and very dense.

In Pepinster's textile mills the teasel balls were mounted on a carding rail in drums that rotated rapidly, imitating the fast, endless movements of the workers.

The 'tchèrdôns' were grown and dried in a special way before being sold to the textile factories in the region. To dry them, special dryers were built, a kind of shed with hundreds of holes in the wall for drafts and beams from which the thistles were hung.

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An 🇧🇪

March 10, 2025

The castle farm, formerly called “cense et labour”, dates from the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries. It had a mixed purpose: growing crops and breeding animals. In 1836, the barn was extended with a brick construction with numerous ventilation slits and served as a drying room for thistles. Thistles were used in the textile industry to card the cloth after pressing. Carding or roughing gave the cloth a felt-like appearance. Thistles were rubbed over it to bring out the down, which was then cut off. The large or wild teasel (the dipsacus fullonum) was used for this. This biennial plant was sown in July, replanted in March and harvested in August and laid out to dry. Handfuls of 15 ears were harvested and 100 handfuls formed a sheaf. One hectare could yield 60 to 70 sheaves (90,000 to 105,000 ears). For one piece of cloth, between 1,500 and 2,000 ears could be needed.

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Nordhesse

November 19, 2024

In the middle of the village is this former farm, whose property was expanded in 1836 to include a brick thistle dryer. The numerous cracks that pierce the masonry ensured a great deal of air circulation to make drying the thistles easier.
Still considered a weed today, the thistle was a very useful plant for the textile industry in the 19th and 20th centuries and was also the subject of some myths: "If a pregnant woman wanted a boy, she ate thistle!"

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