Cloth Trade

Question 1

Who were the Huguenots?

What did they do?

Answer 1

• Protestants from France came in 1681
• brought innovative skills and ideas
• skilled craftsmen, silversmiths, watchmakers and artisans
• set up major weaving industry in Kent

Question 2

what were the new systems in the cloth trade?

Answer 2

• putting out system
  basic skills needed and could be done by most peasant families
  free of tax and based at home
  easier to produce cloth and was done quick

Question 3

value of exports; cloth

Answer 3

• £600,000 in 1560s

- £1.5 million of textiles in the 1660s

Question 4

exports on cloth

Answer 4

• 92% of Londons exports in 1640
• even when rival products entered the market, it still accounted for 74% in 1660
  72% in 1700

Question 5

creation of new draperies

Answer 5

Dutch immigrants
before England did not have the skills to finish and dye cloth so it was shipped to holland to be sold on this system was interrupted by new draperies
brought innovative techniques and skills which allowed Colchester’s textile industry to flourish and also brought about more employment with the development of ‘New Draperies’.

Question 6

short term and long term effects of new draperies

Answer 6

In the short term it provided business and trade with the new developments in fashion, but in the long term the new skills and innovative techniques were used throughout trade in Britain and massively contributed to the economy.