Wool

A history of medieval Italian textiles and their production .

Cistercian s occasional ly marketed an intrinsica lly better product and very often prepared their clip more carefully.

From the Proceeding s of the Society of Antiquarie s of Scotland. Includes informatio n about the Orkney hood, the Rogart shirt, and several knit caps, as well as several preserved fragments.

Bibliographic entries compiled to serve my research purposes on the subject of costume rhetoric in the works of Geoffrey Chaucer. Sections include: sumptuary laws; history of costume; accessories/accoutrements; miscellaneous (fur, embroidery, buttonholes, narrow wares, etc.); fabric, clothmaking, and prices; costumes depicted in two- and three-dimensional visual arts; costumes depicted on funeral brasses; costumes depicted in literature; and dictionaries for costume terms.

The weaving industry in Anglo-Saxon and Viking England.

The quality of Viking and Anglo-Saxon cloth.

History of the wool trade. Types of wool.

Medieval cloth. Silks, wool, cotton, linen.

England's principal export trade from the mid-13th century to the late 14th century was the shipment of raw wool from its main ports to the Continent.

A macro- and micro-economic historical study of competition in the West European woollen textile industries, in France, the Low Countries, England, Italy, and Iberia (Catalonia and Aragon), and of their related wool and cloth trades, covering all of Europe and the Mediterranean basin, from the eleventh to early sixteenth centuries.

My goal was to make a practical garment from the sheep out. That meant spinning, dyeing, weaving, finishing, sewing, and embellishi ng the garment. It also meant researchin g constructi on and methodolog y - what was done, and how it was done.