Medieval Cloth Making in Yorkshire, John S Lee.

This talk will examine the medieval cloth making industry in Yorkshire. It will explore the different processes involved in making cloth. Several of these terms are still mentioned in everyday speech, when we talk of being ‘dyed in the wool’ or ‘on tenterhooks’. It will also examine those working within the industry, including the weavers who are detailed in an inquisition of 1399 covering the county, and the clothiers who co-ordinated production and marketed the cloth, negotiating with merchants from London and occasionally overseas.

Meetings will be live wherever possible but in a hybrid format - so if you cannot, or would prefer not to, join live, we will still be holding the meetings online as well - details will follow nearer the date.

The live venue is expected to be Swarthmore College, 2-7 Woodhouse Square, Woodhouse, Leeds, LS3 1AD.