'Fyne worsted whech is almost like silke': Norwich's Double Worsted

Oldland, John

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“…It was a profitable export in the second half of the fifteenth century, but its dominance was challenged by the arrival of cheaper, lighter Continental fabrics. Oldland argues, contrary to the traditional viewpoint, that Norwich did not go into a rapid decline. Talbott writes about the Franco‐Scottish trade in the long seventeenth century, and his title includes the words ‘beyond the antiseptic world of theoretical economic models’.…”

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“…However, saltpetre and its provision have been overshadowed by ‘more glamorous accounts of politics and war’ (p. 76). Oldland claims that his chosen product, Norwich's double worsted, has also been unfairly overlooked. Worsteds were critical to Norwich's success and double worsted was a very high quality material indeed.…”

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“…Oldland, ‘ “Fyne worsted” ’, p. 190. There were over 5,000 double worsteds, 10 yards long and five quarters wide (30% of the area of a broadcloth) exported in the first two decades of the sixteenth century, but then there was a rapid decline.…”

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Wool and cloth production in late medieval and earlyTudorEngland

Oldland

2013

The Economic History Review

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Estimates of wool production based on the exports of wool and cloth, and an assumption that domestic cloth consumption was, optimistically, constant, suggest that wool production fell by almost a third from the early fourteenth to the mid‐fifteenth century, and had not fully recovered even by the mid‐sixteenth century. However, after the Black Death, much of England's arable was converted to pasture, mainly for sheep, and this process accelerated after 1470. These two observations are contradictory. This article provides new numbers of adult sheep based on estimates of domestic cloth consumption, cloth exports, the changing weight of cloth, and fleece yields. The conclusion is that the adult sheep population only declined by around 13 per cent from 1310 to 1440, and had risen dramatically by the mid‐sixteenth century.

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Tea, coffee or printed cotton? Farm households’ consumption of goods in Northern Sweden, 1760–1820

Ulväng

2021

History of Retailing and Consumption

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This article explores the landowning farm households' consumption of foreign and manufactured goods in the hinterland of northern Sweden in 1770 to 1820. A set of probate inventories shows that the farmers in this particular areaa remote but central transit area for goods between the Norwegian coast and southern Swedenwere part of the general historiography of consumption. However, the findings of tea and coffee utensils, porcelain, printed cotton, silk fabrics and worsted fabrics show that their consumer behaviourdefined as 'semiindustrious'was shaped by the area's characteristics. The farmers increased their market participation and consumption of goods without breaking their existing consumption culture. They simply acquired more of the sameworsted fabrics for clothing and accessories in printed cotton and silk fabrics. The pattern of consumption is explained by the area's firm population structure, strong class barriers and practical aspects such as poor housing. The manufactured fabrics responded to many purposes in the farmers' day-to-day lives. The worsted fabrics were durable, warm and exclusive and the accessories fashionable. Compared with tea and coffee utensils, porcelain, clothing was a versatile belonging that did not need a home to be shown.

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'Fyne worsted whech is almost like silke': Norwich's Double Worsted

Cited by 4 publications

References 12 publications

Review of periodical literature published in 2011

Review of periodical literature published in 2011

Wool and cloth production in late medieval and earlyTudorEngland

Tea, coffee or printed cotton? Farm households’ consumption of goods in Northern Sweden, 1760–1820

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