The English woollen industry, c.1200-c.1560 / John Oldland.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Oldland, John, author.

Series:

Routledge research in early modern history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wool industry--History--England--To 1500.

Wool industry.

History.

England.

Wool industry--History--England--16th century.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xvi, 357 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2019.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Introduction to English woollens

Woollens production and the growing English advantage

Dress, the wool supply, and industry regulation

The thirteenth century: a false start?

Coarse woollens in the early-fourteenth century

The fourteenth-century urban revival

Revival of exports, and an assessment of clothmaking at the end of the fourteenth century

Working conditions in towns

The turbulent fifteenth century

The clothiers' century 1450-1550

The march of the clothiers

The London-Antwerp ascendency and the Merchant Adventurers Company

Export expansion, 1470-1555

Location of the sixteenth-century woollens industry

Crossroads.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-350) and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Oldland, John, author. English woollen industry, c.1200-c.1560

ISBN:

9780367179748

0367179741

OCLC:

1061865132