In the past it would have been a familiar sight to see row upon row of blanket-drying racks in the fields around Witney. Blankets were not woven individually but in stockfuls, the amount that would fit into the fulling mill's stocks. This was usually equivalent to about twenty four blankets in one piece.

On leaving the fulling mills the cloth would be wet and gangs of tuckers were employed to hang it out on tentering racks - wooden frames with tenterhooks driven into a wooden frame to hang the cloth from.

These hooks made holes in the blankets but this seems to have been an accepted feature of the product and the holes were not disguised.

All the tenter racks at Witney Mill had names given to them by the tuckers, such as 'Middleside', ‘Workus' (near the workhouse), 'Over-the-stile', 'Dryneck' (near the bleach houses) and 'Harry's' (which was the largest). This was no doubt necessary when you consider that if the weather was fine it was possible to dry over a mile of blankets outside each day. When it started to rain every available tucker was needed to get the cloth in quickly.

In the 20th century indoor tentering lines began to take their place but a few outdoor tenter racks were still in use in Witney up until the 1950s.