areas not well treated by Reynolds and other historians: in the fields of mining, metallurgy, and textiles – including the … of textiles. On the other hand, and indeed in striking contrast, the application of water-power in the medieval … production of silks and then especially in the 18th-century production of the new cotton textiles, with those major innovations …

still higher than the cost of transporting cheap textiles (says) overland in the late 13th century. Indeed, this steep rise … give up the export of the very cheap, light textiles and focus instead on luxury woollens that could better ‘bear the … textiles from north-west Europe were exported to Italy and the Mediterranean basin, because, inter alia, the overland distance …