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The English Woollen Industry, C.1200-C.1560

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The English Woollen Industry, C.1200-C.1560 Synopsis

This is the first book to describe the early English woollens' industry and its dominance of the trade in quality cloth across Europe by the mid-sixteenth century, as English trade was transformed from dependence on wool to value-added woollen cloth. It compares English and continental draperies, weighs the advantages of urban and rural production, and examines both quality and coarse cloths. Rural clothiers who made broadcloth to a consistent high quality at relatively low cost, Merchant Adventurers who enjoyed a trade monopoly with the Low Countries, and Antwerp's artisans who finished cloth to customers' needs all eventually combined to make English woollens unbeatable on the continent.

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ISBN: 9780367731922
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Author: John Oldland
Publisher: Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis
Format: Paperback
Pagination: 358 pages
Series: Routledge Research in Early Modern History
Genres: History and Archaeology
European history
Economic history