TY - BOOK ID - 85284831 TI - The English woollen industry, c.1200-c.1560 PY - 2019 SN - 0429058772 0429602812 0429608330 9780429058776 9780429608339 9780429602818 9780429597299 0429597290 9780367179748 PB - London Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group DB - UniCat KW - Wool industry KW - Wool-growing industry KW - Wool trade and industry KW - Woolgrowing industry KW - Sheep industry KW - History KW - History of the United Kingdom and Ireland KW - anno 1200-1499 UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85284831 AB - 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. ER -