We're delighted to announce the latest winners of the Pasold Prize for Textile History!
Winner:
Mathijs Speecke: 'Walls of Cloth: Tentergrounds and Cloth Production in Bruges, c. 1200–1600', available at: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Walls of Cloth: Tentergrounds and Cloth Production in Bruges, c. 1200–1600
The example of the tentergrounds in late medieval Bruges shows how landowners—both public and private—profited from unfavourable geo-morphological conditions to create vast industrial spaces used f...