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Main products: Panni di Garbo (second quality made from Spanish wool), San Martino (finest English wool), Rascia (unrefined woollen cloth.)įrom 1252 The florin � the gold coin that takes its name from Florence, was minted. Main markets: Italy, the Levant, Northern Europe Sources of row materials: Western Mediterranean, England, Central Italy, Spain From this dicovery the Rucellai family accumulated a huge fortune in the woollen cloth business. Connell)įlorence had another important asset, the mastering of purple dye (oricello rosso) discovered in the 12th c.
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"Dress was employed as a primary visual means by medieval and Renaissance elite to manifest rank and magnificence publicly." (William J. See: The Arte della Lana & The Government of Florenceįlorence had many assets that made its textile industry grow rapidly: merchants with commercial networks in Europe and the middle east, bankers with their own financial network and capital available for investment, a long tradition of entrepreneurship, skilled workers and a European market with a growing demand for luxury textiles and clothes. was one of the most powerful guilds in Florence. The number of wool shop numbered over a hundred (152 in 1561.) The Guild of the Wool Merchants ( Il Arte della Lana) founded in the late 12th c. During the 14th century, one third of the city�s population was directly involved in the wool industry. Florence was located on one of Italy�s largest rivers, the Arno, allowing the cleaning of the wool and access to the sea via the port of Pisa. It was due to the better quality of the English wool that the wool fabrics produced in Florence were of better quality than the one from Flanders. The best dyes came from the Orient, the best wool from England (imported from 1280). But as the wool was not of sufficient quantity and quality the growth of the textile industry depended on importing raw material. The Florentine wool industry had its origins in the exploitation of resources of the region. Originally production was limited primarily to wool cloth, but in the late 14th century it expanded to silks. The production of textiles gave the Florentine economy a strong industrial basis from the end of the middle ages.