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32 woman's work in the wobld's clothing.
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The Traveller Mounting Some Steep Ascent...
weaving theless * it were is s ori ufficien ginall t y ly exercised evident in that Eng brewing land b " , w baking omen , , from and
the fact of the primal form of the nouns , brewster , bakster , and webs after t men er , h began aving * all to tak a feminin e a share e termination in these emp , it lo having yment " onl , that y been the
words assumed an English masculine termination . bu t li the ttle _^ 12 woollen th century oods , thoug were h linen produced was chiefl in E y made land at home the ,
Flemings being much g more skilful than ourselves ng , , their immit countrymen having probabldeenerated in their
gran y g and art , our reimpor woo ted l was when chiefl manufactured y sent over . to In them the 13 th the century raw stat an e ,
barons attempt passing was made a law to which put a prohibi stop to ted this the prac expor tice t , Henry wool III , and . V
ordained that no woollen cloths should be worn save such as . wer thoug e wroug h occasionall ht at home called : but into this existence Act was again soon at various repealed times , and
could never be long y enforced . In the course of the next century , , howeveran effort to omote _home-manufactures was made in
another , far wiser pr direction , by Edward III ., after his niarriage with the daughter of the Earl of Hainault . At this period
no t the ha more t art according of wha cloth t to to - F do making uller with , they their had " wool as declined yet than were the i amon gnoran sheep g t , the as which k E nowin ng bore lish g
, it ; " though this is rather a strong exaggeration , since the poorer clo cla th sses cer We tainly could ima no ine t have there a fore fforded how to t p urchase Flemish Flanders lad y
accus . tomed to may the cunning g l , y wrought , fabrics of her countrymen , , _, s woul he found d look h er it lord h amazemen ' s liees t at this the land coars common e rough l garbs attired in which and . .
as her sagacity could not g overlook the vast emolument y derived ; doub by forei tless gners at our expense her royal from husban this im d por the t sy advantages stem , she would that
might be d urge erived upon from transporting hither some of the skill for which quite adopt her na the tiv rather e place startling was so asser fam tion ed . of Thoug the monkish h we may chron no - t
be icler the , quoted by of M Edward iss Strickland III . and , when Phili he exc his la wife ims , who Blessed first
invented memory clothes ; " there yet seems no ppa room to doubt , that it in authoress of was 1331 perfection by her had believes advice also was some that that first the connecti the introduced visit art on of paid with making into by the her Eng cloth mother establishment land in ; to any and Phili degree here th ppa at
of emissaries Flemish were artizans sent . to the However low countries that may to be temp , we t their know work that
were men to held emi , out grat as e a here gran , and d lure that on the the ch occasion arms of _^ the for Britisli they wei fair \ e
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32 Woman's Work In The Wobld's Clothing.
32 woman ' s work in the wobld ' s clothing .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Sept. 1, 1863, page 32, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01091863/page/32/
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