Advance to yarn collectors

In older documents, a payment to yarn collectors who, on behalf of merchants in the cities, purchased woven fabrics from village producers of yarn made from fibers such as animal wool, hair, nettle, flax, and hemp, who worked mainly as a sideline at the domestic spinning wheel. – The yarn trade was regulated and supervised by separate ordinances in many German territorial states. The reason why this market was regulated by the state authorities was that the prices for clothing kept rising sharply, especially since a not inconsiderable part of the artisanal textile production was used by the state for soldiers’ uniforms. – See spun money, mutton money.

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