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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...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...
...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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...in which private contractors - for textiles, typically individual women - would be given cloth or raw materials and paid to process them at home. Note also that this is happening at precisely the point of Cotton's introduction...
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...so you have a new fiber to think about. The cotton is coming from India and the Americas, through Britain's trade network, being processed largely in Britain and then sold domestically or exported. You can see why Napoleon's continental system might matter here a lot...
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