wool stapler , also: wool-stapler

He spent his early life working as a wool stapler for the Allanson family.

At 14 years of age Goldsbrough was apprenticed to a Bradford firm and became a wool stapler.

The (golden, by the top left image) fleece, a sign of the wool stapler, symbolises the wool industry in the city.

Deprived, though, of a man's artistic prerogatives in Elizabethan England, she would die by her own hand embittered and unproved, the frustrated wife "of a neighboring wool stapler."

Others were employed by wool staplers or by other clothiers on a commission basis, being supplied with an amount of raw wool, the yarn or cloth produced was the property of the supplier who paid them for their labour.

James Lord Bowes was born in Horsforth, Leeds, UK, the youngest of six surviving children of John Bowes (Wool Stapler) and Elizabeth Bowes (née Lord).

Each bale of cloth could represent the work of up to fifty people from in and around Colchester, including shepherds, wool staplers, carders, wool combers, spinners, dyers, weavers, fullers, roughers, shearers, pressers and merchants.

In Exeter the wool staplers moved quickly in 1787 to imprison some striking wool sorters who were seeking to advance their wages, but at several other times since the statute they employed had been enacted in 1726, they had conceded advances sought by their journeymen.