The Fleece and the Loom

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Excerpt from The Fleece and the Loom: An Address Before the National Association of Wool Manufacturers, at the First Annual Meeting in Philadelphia, Sept, 6, 1805The Netherlands, already advanced, as early as the tenth century, in the manufacture of linen, which their soil produced of admirable quality, readily appropriated from the Italians the arts of manufacturing wool. Favored by their internal water-carriage, which gave them supplies of material, and by the middle station of their ports in the foreign navigation of the maritime nations, they had outlets for their commodities in all parts of Europe. They supplied themselves with wool from England, to the vast amount of forty-five million pounds in some years, and were aided, at one period, in obtaining wool from Spain by the union of the sovereignties of Spain and the Netherlands under Charles V. Flanders continued for a long period to supply Europe with all the woollen cloths and stuffs demanded by luxury or taste, and was the veritable centre from which the arts of fabricating woollens Spread in time to all the other industrious nations of Christendomf' Flemish wealth, derived mainly from this industry, was the envy of all Europe. Letters and the fine arts were encouraged and ¿our ished, and the works of the Flemish, no less than the Floren tine painters, survive to illustrate the great truth that the true source of the highest culture of a nation, and of its only immortal monuments, is its industrial prosperity.This sketch of the industry of Rome, Italy, and Flanders, is but introductory to that of the great nation from which we derive our language, institutions, and arts, and which, com manding a foreign trade of not less than twenty-one hundred millions of dollars, and exporting annually her manufactures to the amount of six hundred and fifty millions of dollars, 't must be first looked to for instruction and example by all nations who seek their own industrial development. We find that our own industry has played no mean part in securing England's commercial prosperity.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.