Sentence examples for cloth trade from inspiring English sources

They are notable as centres of the cloth trade and for their architecture (see African architecture).

The town's once-important cloth trade is first mentioned in 1334; carpet manufacture replaced that of woolen goods in 1735.

And yet the hub of the English wool and cloth trade on the edge of Europe would, by the 1700s, become the centre of the world.

A series of bad grain harvests, continued dislocation of the cloth trade, and a virulent plague that killed tens of thousands all conspired against the new king.

Chartered in 1272, it was a centre of the medieval cloth trade and was known in the 17th and 18th centuries for its clay pipes (still produced).

The cloth trade has been plied in Halifax from an early date the first record of a weaver there was in 1275.

The city thrived as a centre of the wool and cloth trades during the Middle Ages and as a fashionable resort during the 18th and 19th centuries.

An old market town for grain, wool, and cloth trades, it lost its preeminence to Bradford (just to the northeast) in the 19th century.

Leeds' wool and cloth trades resulted in the building of many industrial buildings during this era.

As a result, the Mortimers rarely visited the castle during the first part of the century, despite the surrounding town having become prosperous in the wool and cloth trades.

At Munich he suggested that the elector of Bavaria establish South American colonies and a cloth-trade monopoly, but angry merchants forced him to flee.