Making and Marketing Woollen Cloth in Late-Medieval London

Oldland, John

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“…91 Flemish exiles also maintained contacts with the London drapers, who monopolized these sales to the court. 92 In 1367, for example, Arnold Skakpynkyl and Nys van de Vyure from Ghent sued draper Nicholas Rouse for a debt of £9 19s. 93 During the 1350s, cloths imported from abroad, which were usually the higher-quality varieties, constituted the majority of textiles sealed by the aulnager in London.…”

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Immigration and the Common Profit: Native Cloth Workers, Flemish Exiles, and Royal Policy in Fourteenth-Century London

Lambert¹,

Pajic²

2016

J. Br. Stud.

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This article reconstructs a crucial episode in the relationship between the English crown, its subjects and the kingdom's immigrant population. It links the murder of about forty Flemings in London during the Peasants' Revolt in June 1381 to the capital's native cloth workers' dissatisfaction with the government's economic immigration policy. We argue that, in the course of the fourteenth century, the crown developed a new policy aimed at attracting skilled workers from abroad. Convinced that their activities benefited the common profit of the realm, the crown remained deaf to the concerns of London's native weavers, who claimed that the work of exiled Flemish cloth workers in the city encroached on their privileges. Confronted for more than twenty-five years with political obstruction, the native weavers increasingly resorted to physical aggression against their Flemish counterparts, which came to a dramatic conclusion in 1381. The dissatisfaction of London's cloth workers and the massacre of the Flemings thus had much in common with the frustrations over the royal government's policy that had been fermenting for decades among many other groups in society: all came to the surface during the Peasants' Revolt.

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Section: Political Failure and Anti-flemish Aggressionmentioning

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Immigration and the Common Profit: Native Cloth Workers, Flemish Exiles, and Royal Policy in Fourteenth-Century London

Lambert¹,

Pajic²

2016

J. Br. Stud.

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“…The English cloth industry and its international trade are tackled by Oldland in two articles. Firstly, in Journal of European Economic History , he looks in detail at the expanding English cloth exports after the mid‐fourteenth century and he identifies a move after 1450 from mostly low‐quality cloths towards a wider range in terms of price and quality.…”

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“…Inexpensive (but good‐quality) broadcloths, cheap cottons, and high‐priced kerseys served an increased demand from the lower orders, while depressed wool prices and a more efficient rural organization kept production costs relatively low for English clothiers. In the second article ( London Journal ), Oldland examines the cloth‐making traders and merchant distributors in medieval London, and how their fortunes were interwoven. The drapers proved the most successful, expanding their fine cloth exports during the fifteenth century by encouraging dependent cloth‐makers to produce quality products.…”

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The Economic History Review

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“…25 London burellers, who had successfully made coarse worsteds and serges since the early thirteenth century, had disappeared by mid-century. 26 The greater complexity of making greased woollens, especially in the finishing processes, led urban drapers to buy rural cloth and then finished it in towns. By the end of the century many rural clothmakers from Somerset, Wiltshire, Kent, Surrey/Sussex and Suffolk/Essex had adopted the broadloom and were selling broad dozens (cloth half the length of a standard broadcloth) and straits/kersey (cloth a foot wide and 12 yards long) to London merchants looking for cheaper cloth for export.…”

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The Clothiers’ Century, 1450–1550

Oldland¹

2018

Rural History

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Abstract:In the hundred years from 1450 to 1550, the great success enjoyed by the English woollen industry in continental markets was a result of clothiers organising the rural cloth industry in the West Country, Suffolk/Essex, the Kentish Weald and Newbury and its surrounds, to produce cloth that London merchants required. To do this they allocated extensive capital to cloth production: buying wools, sorting and dyeing them, organising their carding and spinning, putting the yarn out for weaving, and then in some cases owning the mills that fulled the cloth and finally shearing it in-house. The leading clothiers carried wool and cloth inventories, developed strong buying networks and offered merchants credit. Clothiers' control over production declined after 1550 as the government exercised greater control over cloth quality and clothiers' freedoms, and as price competition intensified from coarser cloths and new draperies.

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Making and Marketing Woollen Cloth in Late-Medieval London

Cited by 6 publications

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Immigration and the Common Profit: Native Cloth Workers, Flemish Exiles, and Royal Policy in Fourteenth-Century London

Immigration and the Common Profit: Native Cloth Workers, Flemish Exiles, and Royal Policy in Fourteenth-Century London

Review of periodical literature published in 2011

The Clothiers’ Century, 1450–1550

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