The English Woollen Industry, c.1200-c.1560(English, Electronic book text, Oldland John)

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The English Woollen Industry, c.1200-c.1560(English, Electronic book text, Oldland John) is written by Oldland John and published by Taylor & Francis Ltd. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0429602812 (ISBN 10) and 9780429602818 (ISBN 13).

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.