Fustain Cutter/Shearer/Weaver
Fustain is formerly a coarse cloth made of cotton and flax. Now a thick twilled cotton cloth with a short pile or nap, a kind of cotton velvet. A long thin knife was inserted into the loops and the thread cut as it was pulled through, stretched between two rollers. The cloth was then brushed to raise the pile. Fustain is the old name for corduroy.
Journeyman
The word journeyman comes from the French word journée. The title refers to the journeyman's right to charge a fee for each day's work. A journeyman has completed an apprenticeship, but is employed by another such as a master craftsman. They live apart and the journeyman might have a family of his own. A journeyman cannot employ others.
Whitster
Various processes culminate in weaving on a weaving loom. The cotton cloth so produced is known as "grey cloth" although the colour is more of a creamy white until further processing.
To remove all the impurities, such as cotton seed, shell and natural waxes, together with the residue of other applications, further treatment had to be given. A Whitster did this a s a service for the Hand Loom Weaver in the early days of dipping and possing (or stirring) the cloth into containers of liquid bleach (caustic!).
Later, when the industry became mechanised, the term Bleacher was more commonly used as the actual process was done by machine.