Why 'Teazel'?
The connection between teazels (or teasels, or teazles, depending on where you live) and textile production goes back centuries. In the woollen industry, the prickly heads of the Fuller’s Teasel (Dipsacus sativus – not to be confused with the more common wild teasel) were traditionally used to ‘tease’ or raise the nap of the woven cloth. Such was the demand for teazels that growing was on a commercial scale, with the area around South Somerset being a particularly important source for the thriving West Country woollen industry. Borrowing the name and image of the teazel is my way of honouring the legacy of this historical tradition and respecting the continuity of cloth production in this area.
