Sometimes when reading the scholarship on a historical production process, answering simple questions can be so maddeningly difficult. In this case: was wool sorted, then sold? Or sold, and then sorted? (Answer: both, but mostly the former, as far as I can tell)
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I know that no treatment of an entire production chain can include every fact or detail, but the frequency with which, say, 'the wool trade' is discussed in the absence of a discussion of the evidence for the mechanics of that trade or the workers in it is always frustrating.
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Obviously this is something I am trying to do a bit differently in the 'How Did They Make It" series - I try to stop at every stage and ask "who is doing this work?" (thus the need to know if sorting is happening at point-of-production, or point-of-consumption)...
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...but those details are often surprisingly hard to run down in the specialist literature on the topic, all too frequently forsaken for either a discussion of the upper-level merchants and trade, or a ground-level look at tools and artifacts.
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