Wool Merchant taking pieces of cloth to the
Wool Merchant taking pieces of cloth to the Cloth Hall at Leeds for sale. These lengths of cloth were made by homeworkers. Merchants supplied raw material and marketed finished cloth. With the coming of woollen mills and industrialisation these craftsmen were gradually driven out of work. From George Walker The Costume of Yorkshire Leeds 1814. Aquatint
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13904548
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1814 Aquatint Craftsmen Driven Finished Gradually Homeworkers Industrialisation Lengths Marketed Merchants Supplied Woollen
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