...and the technological advances in the early phases of the industrial revolution allowed output to increase quite a lot (particularly by resolving labor bottlenecks in spinning and weaving). So Napoleon has the good fortune to be clothing an army in a time of falling prices...
Oh, we are a touch outside of my expertise for the late-18th century wool industry. What I can say is that the export of English/Welsh/Scottish wool, primarily to Flanders (and from there to the rest of Europe) becomes very significant in the 14th century...
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...but, of course, local wool production would have been happening all over Europe as well, and a lot of textile production is still taking place in small-scale, non-industrial settings, even by this point. A lot of textiles still produced in the 'putting-out' system...
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