The woolstaplers, carders, and weavers of Toledo had their patroness here long before the church was built, and they only gave up their right to the ground on the condition that they should be entire masters of the chapel, and do in it whatever they pleased and in all this piece of the Cathedral as far as those nearest pillars.
"The Shadow of the Cathedral"
Vicente Blasco Ibañez
Clothmakers must pay their laborers, such as carders and spinsters, in current coin and not in pins and girdles and the like.
"Our Legal Heritage, 4th Ed."
S. A. Reilly
The advertisement, long and awkwardly worded, offered for sale an old spinning wheel, an ancient loom and a set of wool carders.
"Hoofbeats on the Turnpike"
Mildred A. Wirt