era when the �draperies� or cloth industries of the late-medieval Low Countries and England had become increasingly … the Low Countries and England to re-orient their export-oriented cloth production more and more towards high-priced ultra … the Flemish composite price index: 1351-1550; (10) Prices of various Brabantine woollen cloths, compared to the Brabant …

woollen textile ind ustries, in France, the Low Countries, England, Italy, and Iberia (Catalonia and Aragon), and of their … transaction costs, and new continental trade routes, based on South Germany, the Rhineland, and the Brabant Fairs that favoured …

, classed under the general headings of woollens, worsteds, and semi-worsted 'stuffs'. They ranged in quality and price from … relatively cheap -- those that a master craftsmen could buy with two week's wages -- to the ultra-luxurious woollen scarlets … and amongst the various types of woollens, worsteds, and semi-worsted stuffs. To understand the marketing of these …

kermes (extracted from Mediterranean insects). Scarlets often accounted for over a third of the textiles so purchased in the … the most costly and luxurious of all medieval woollens: the scarlets, dyed in the extremely costly brilliant red dye … scarlets and of other dyed woollen broadcloths, while demonstrating with comparative price and wage analyses (i.e., the …

-eminent leaders - those in the southern Low Countries (Flanders and Brabant); and in Mediterranean markets of this era, Florentine …