In the middle of the room is a stone stove with a copper cauldron where water supplied through a channel was poured. After heating, water was fed to the trunk with an opening called ‘lisica’ where woollen cloth was laid out properly folded for fulling. The cloth was then struck by massive, stepped hammers. The entire mechanism is driven by a water wheel on a long shaft. The part inside the building has wedges that, when they rotate, lift up the hammers installed on sturdy shafts and beams connected to the structure of the building. Under the influence of hammer blows and hot water supplied from a cauldron (fulling clay, urine or soap were sometimes added to speed up the process), compact fabric of uniform thickness was obtained, which could shrink by as much as by 60 percent. The rest of the work such as drying, brushing, scraping and, if necessary, shearing was done manually by the fuller. The resulting fabric was rather heavy but at the same time had good thermal insulation properties and offered good protection against wind and rain. It is not surprising then that it was popular in all parts of the Podtatrze region (and not only there) and consequently became an indispensable part of the folk costume. Who has not seen highlanders’ breeches, a hat, a ‘cucha’, or even the Krakow ‘sukmana’?