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A merchant would be known as a mercer, and the profession as mercery. The occupation of mercery has a rich and complex history dating back over 1,000 years in what is now the United Kingdom. London was the major trade centre in England for silk during the Middle Ages, and the trade enjoyed a special position in the economy amongst the wealthy. [2]
Cloth Merchant's Shop, Brooklyn Museum, depicts an establishment in India. In the Middle Ages or 16th and 17th centuries, a cloth merchant was one who owned or ran a cloth (often wool) manufacturing or wholesale import or export business. [1] A cloth merchant might additionally own a number of draper's shops. Cloth was extremely expensive and ...
Cloth merchants. Pages in category "Cloth merchants" The following 22 pages are in this category, out of 22 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
A medieval merchant's trading house in Southampton, restored to its mid-14th-century appearance. There were some reversals. The attempts of English merchants to break through the Hanseatic league directly into the Baltic markets failed in the domestic political chaos of the Wars of the Roses in the 1460s and 1470s. [117]
Cloth merchants (22 P) Clothing companies (14 C, 6 P) D. Clothing industry disasters (2 C, 6 P) ... Mercery; N. Nylon riots; P. Piñatex; Predetermined motion time ...
Clothing factory in Montreal, Quebec, 1941. Clothing industry or garment industry summarizes the types of trade and industry along the production and value chain of clothing and garments, starting with the textile industry (producers of cotton, wool, fur, and synthetic fibre), embellishment using embroidery, via the fashion industry to apparel retailers up to trade with second-hand clothes and ...
The £4,000 Kendrick left to Newbury was used to build a 'cloth manufactory' where unemployed clothworkers could be employed until the trade in the town recovered. The trade never recovered and the building went through several uses (workhouse, hospital, school, warehousing) before being restored in 1903 as the Newbury Borough Museum.
Sir Edward Coke sponsored the Welsh cloth bill in 1621, which aimed to eliminate the effective monopoly of the Company over transport of the cloth to London. The first draft said that all merchants were to be allowed to buy cloth anywhere in Wales and to export it subject to paying duties to the crown.