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...
...for army service. The young men shall go to battle; the married men shall forge arms and transport provision; the women shall make tents and clothes, and shall serve in the hospitals" (it continues). Ironically, that sort of near-total mobilization was possible...
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...because of the more efficient administration system constructed by the ancien regime in the proceeding century and a half. But it meant that the revolutionary government - and later Napoleon - by tapping into nationalist sentiment, might command a huge slice of...
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...of all of that small-scale background textile production. And remember: all those men in the army would have needed to wear clothes if they were in the army or not, so the background production was there if the state could harness it...
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