Tenterfield, Pig Hill Wood, near Huddersfield

Gelatine silver print entitled 'Tenterfield, Pig Hill Wood, near Huddersfield' by Ian Beesley. Produced for the commission `Through the Mill:, The Story of Yorkshire Wool in Photographs'. 1985-1987'.

For many centuries woven cloth was dried in the open air by means of stretching it on tenter seam or tenter hooks (hence the phrase 'to be on tenterhooks'). Here are possibly the last surviving hooks fixed to the weaver's cottage and stretched to these tenter posts at the end of each cottage garden (three in all).