cloth industry

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• Wealden cloth industry — Cloth making was, apart from iron making, the other large scale industry carried out on the Weald of Kent and Sussex in medieval times. The ready availability of wool from the sheep of the Romney Marsh, and the immigration from Flanders in the… …   Wikipedia

• Cloth Hall, Ypres — The Cloth Hall, Ypres The Cloth Hall (Dutch: Lakenhal or Lakenhalle), of Ypres, Belgium, was one of the largest commercial buildings of the Middle Ages, when it served as the main market and warehouse for the Flemish city s prosperous cloth… …   Wikipedia

• Cloth merchant — s Shop, Brooklyn Museum Cloth merchant is, strictly speaking, like a draper, the term for any vendor of cloth. However, it is generally used for one who owned and/or ran a cloth (often wool) manufacturing and/or wholesale import and/or export… …   Wikipedia

• Industry of the People's Republic of China — Industry produced 53.7 percent of the People s Republic of China’s gross domestic product (GDP) in 2005. Industry (including mining, manufacturing, construction, and power) contributed 46.8 percent of GDP in 2010 and occupied 27 percent of the… …   Wikipedia

• Cloth mill Offermann — The cloth mill Offermann was a brass factory of the 18th century in the German city of Stolberg. Later it became a cloth mill demonstrating the change of industrial development in the city. Currently it is used as an apartment building. History… …   Wikipedia

• Industry of China — Industry produced 53.1 percent of China’s gross domestic product (GDP) in 2005. Industry (including mining, manufacturing, construction, and power) contributed 52.9 percent of GDP in 2004 and occupied 22.5 percent of the workforce. The… …   Wikipedia

• Industry in ancient Tamil country — During the Sangam age, industrial activity was considered ancillary to agriculture and was mostly domestic, not factory based. Simple workshops where the blacksmith made the wheel or the carpenter his wooden wares could be called factories of a… …   Wikipedia

• Cloth of gold — This article is about the fabric. For the snail, see Conus textile. For the 16th century event, see Field of Cloth of Gold. Cloth of gold is a fabric woven with a gold wrapped or spun weft referred to as a spirally spun gold strip . In most cases …   Wikipedia

• Cloth —    Production of cloth was the earliest luxury trade in Brussels and the economy was heavily dependent on it in the Middle Ages. The industry dates from the 11th century and the cloth guild was recognized officially by Duke John I in 1289.… …   Historical Dictionary of Brussels

• cloth — noun 1 material used for making clothes, curtains, etc. ADJECTIVE ▪ coarse, fine ▪ woven ▪ cotton, woollen/woolen ▪ a jacket made from woollen/woolen cloth …   Collocations dictionary

• industry —    Spain became a fully industrialized nation much later than most other western European nations. Although Catalonia and the Basque country could be considered industrialized regions by the end of the nineteenth century, the rest of Spain was… …   Encyclopedia of contemporary Spanish culture