a fuller’s shop - What is the Spanish translation? Spanish translators help technical Spanish translators with the translation of a fuller’s shop

Conges terminology question

210 months ago

Araceli Herrera (a guest user) asked this question:

Language pair:	English > Spanish
Subject:	Technical / Engineering
Level of diffculty:	Easy / medium
Word or term in question:	a fuller’s shop
Context:	Ahead three women stood in the doorway of a fuller’s shop, their hands bleached white from
Keywords:	their hands bleached white from cleaning linen. Aparece en una novela ambientada en la Grecia antigua.

The answer of Peonia Kempenich was rated best

una tintorería / el taller de un tintorero o teñidor

My comment:

FULLER - fool'-er (kabhac; literally, "to trample," gnapheus): The fuller was usually the dyer, since, before the woven cloth could be properly dyed, it must be freed from the oily and gummy substances naturally found on the raw fiber. Many different substances were in ancient times used for cleansing. Among them were white clay, putrid urine, and the ashes of certain desert plants. The fuller's shop was usually outside the city, first, that he might have sufficient room to spread out his cloth for drying and sunning, and second, because of the offensive odors sometimes produced by his processes...The unbleached cotton is soaked in water and then sprinkled with the powdered ashes of the ishnan, locally called qali, and then beaten in heaps on a flat stone either with another stone or with a large wooden paddle. The cloth is washed free from the alkali by small boys treading on it in a running stream or in many changes of clean water (compare En-rogel, literally, "foot fountain," but translated also "fuller's fountain" because of the fullers' method of washing their cloth). Mark describes Jesus' garments at the time of His transfiguration as being whiter than any fuller on earth could whiten them (Mk 9:3). En http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:_59Dl6yiJzoJ:net.bible.org/dictionary.php%3Fword%3DFuller+def.+fuller+shop&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us&client=firefox-a

My references:

DRAE: tintorería.

1. f. Oficio de tintorero.

2. f. Establecimiento donde se limpian o tiñen telas, ropas y otras cosas.

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5.1.2 Tintorero
Es la persona encargada de teñir la tela siguiendo procesos determinados a
fin de darle determinados colores y tonalidades. Otra denominación para
esta ocupación es la de “Teñidor”.
¿Cuáles son sus tareas?
• Cose un extremo del género al otro para facilitar el teñido.
• Pasar las telas a teñirse sobre los rodillos de la máquina, abre la llave
del agua para enjuagar las telas teñidas.
• Verificar el tiempo de reposo por cada tipo de tela a fin de que adquiera
el color asignado.
• Sacar y exprimir el género y lo entrega al área de acabado.
(http://www.empleosperu.gob.pe/imt/productos/Boletines%20Sectoriales/Sector%20Industria%20Textil.pdf)