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Medieval English wool trade

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In 1280 about 25,000 sacks of wool were exported from England; trade in raw wool peaked around 40,000–45,000 sacks per year, falling to 33,000 in 1355 and 9,706 in 1476 as exports changed to finished cloth. As exports of raw wool fell, exports of cloths rose, from 10,000 cloths per year in 1349–50 to
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John Munro notes that "o form of manufacturing had a greater impact upon the economy and society of medieval Britain than did those industries producing cloths from various kinds of wool." The trade's liveliest period, 1250–1350, was 'an era when trade in wool had been the backbone and driving force
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English wools, particularly from the Welsh Marches, the South West and Lincolnshire, were the most prized in medieval Europe. It was exported to the emergent urban centres of cloth production of the Low Countries, France, and Italy, where production was promoted by the adoption of the pedal-driven
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England's wool-trade was volatile, however, affected by diverse factors such as war, taxation policy, export/import duties or even bans, disease and famine, and the degree of competition among European merchants for English wool. For example, since Continental industry relied on English wool, and
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and lichens for reds and purples. Some high-status woollen cloth is found, including gold brocade. New textile types appeared around the tenth century, prominently including diamond twills whose use continued into the thirteenth century. There is little evidence for long-distance trade, but there
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Subsistence-level production of wool continued, but was overshadowed by the rise of wool as a commodity, which in turn encouraged demand for other raw materials such as dyestuffs; the rise of manufacturing; the financial sector; urbanisation; and (since wool and related raw materials had a high
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is extensive. Tools and technologies of spinning and weaving were similar to those of the Roman period; it is likely that fine, white wool continued to be produced from sheep introduced from the Mediterranean region alongside coarser local wools. Dyes included woad for blue and less frequently
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The English imported more foreign cloth at the start of the 14th century than they exported wool cloth. In the 1330s, imports of foreign cloth collapsed and by the 1340s, imports of foreign cloth had almost disappeared. The onset of war led the English to protect their
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and impose hindrances on imports of foreign cloth. According to one 1950 study, "war-time needs, war-time diplomatic policy, and war-time fiscal policy, had together given an immense impetus to the development of England's woollen industry" in the 14th century.
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By the sixteenth century, the quality of English wools was in decline, perhaps partly due to a switch in focus to meat production for domestic urban markets, and European supremacy in the production of fine-wool passed to the Iberian peninsula and its
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negotiated an agreement with the domestic merchant community (and secured a permanent duty on wool), Italian merchants had begun to gain dominance in the trade. Extending their activities to finance, the
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seems to have been some, presumably of especially rare wools or cloths: the silence of the sources is punctuated by a famous mention of the slipping standards of English cloaks exported to
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60,000 in 1446–47, and c. 140,000 in 1539–40. 'By the end of the thirteenth century, the heavily industrialised areas of Europe could not have existed without the export of English wool.'
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Munro, John H. (2003b). "Medieval Woollens: The Western European Woollen Industries and their Struggles for International Markets, c. 1000–1500". In Jenkins, David (ed.).
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In the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, the English wool trade was primarily with Flanders (where wool was made into cloth, primarily for sale via the
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in Italy, became particularly prominent in English taxation and finance. Among the most famous merchants participating in the English wool trade were
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export embargoes could 'bring whole areas to the brink of starvation and economic ruin', the wool trade was a powerful political tool. Likewise,
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Munro, John H. (2003a). "Medieval Woollens: Textiles, Textile Technology and Industrial Organisation, c. 800–1500". In Jenkins, David (ed.).
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organisations seem to have emerged in the textile industry in England in the 12th century. This was earlier than elsewhere in Europe.
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During the early Anglo-Saxon period (c. 450–650), archaeological evidence for subsistence-level wool production using
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Emilia Jamroziak, 'Rievaulx Abbey as a Wool Producer in the Late Thirteenth Century: Cistercians, Sheep, and Debts',
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Rogers, Penelope Walton (2003). "The Anglo-Saxons and Vikings in Britain, AD 450–1050". In Jenkins, David (ed.).
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into the Mediterranean basin), and was dominated by Flemish merchants. But in 1264, the strife in England of the
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argued that wool was already a major source of wealth and an important export commodity in England at this time.
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value-to-weight ratio and were easily transported) regional, international, and even intercontinental trade.
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with better resources than France. These instabilities led to a boom-bust cycle in prices and exports.
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English wool production declined by a third from the early fourteenth to the mid-fifteenth century.
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The table charts English woolsack and broadcloth exports, in five-year means, 1281–1545.
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Quinn, David B. (1992). "Columbus and the North: England, Iceland, and Ireland".
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The Wool Trade in English Medieval History: Being the Ford Lectures
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Among the lasting monuments to the success of the trade are the
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brought Anglo-Flemish trade almost to a halt and by 1275, when
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Bell, Adrian R.; Brooks, Chris; Dryburgh, Paul R. (2007).
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A painting showing a man in orange clothes playing a pipe and ringing a small bell. He is surrounded by numerous small white sheep, and two trees sit on either side of him. A small village is depicted in the upper left hand corner.
Sheep
medieval English
medievalist
enclosure
common land
English agriculture
British Agricultural Revolution
'wool churches'
Worshipful Company of Clothworkers
Woolsack
The drawing shows a man sitting under a small tree and blowing a horn to a flock of some furry creatures on his left, while a man on his right shows an open cage
Utrecht Psalter
warp-weighted looms
madder
Francia
Charlemagne
Offa of Mercia
Peter Sawyer
On the left a rectangular sheep pen with eighteen sheep standing or lying very close together, a person milking a sheep and a person holding the head of a sheep, probably in order to shear it; on the right two persons holding vessels on their head
Luttrell Psalter
A kneeling person in a blue dress and a sitting person in grey and blue clothing with a black hat, both shearing a small sheep, surrounded by other small sheep on a green meadow
Les Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry
spinning wheel
fulling
napping
home industry
taxes
Edward I
Hundred Years' War

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