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Captured 'plying their trades' at a museum in Glastonbury. He is an Inkle Weaver (Shakespeare mentions inkles three times in his works - the earliest is in "Love's Labours Lost" [Act III, Scene I] which was written about 1590). He is dressed as an Inkle Peddler who went from door to door selling his wares with samples attached to his jacket. She is a Blackworker (historically, blackwork was an embroidery technique used on shirts and chemises or smocks in England from the time of Henry VIII). A lovely couple and very interesting to talk to.