For this privilege, they would have to pay a tax in wool, meat, milk, and cheese to the temples, who would distribute these products to the bureaucracy and priesthood.

Bronze is used to make bronze wool for woodworking applications where steel wool would discolor oak.

Hand-spinning was a cottage industry in medieval Europe, where the wool spinners ( often women and children ) would provide enough yarn to service the needs of the men who operated the loom.

As the wool trade declined, people began to trade in horses, and these would be sold at every Fair.

The Hansa would buy shiploads of salted fish, wool and butter and import salt, cloth, beer and other goods.

One reason cited was that the cotton or even older wool swimsuits would clog up the filtration system.

The costs would have been enormous, and Henry attempted to meet them with taxes on wool and sheepskins, but the project continued past his own lifetime.

The seeds, cork and coins would suggest trade to and from the Iberian peninsula and the presence of Merino sheep wool in the caulking material supports this idea ; but is not conclusive proof.

Julius Delius assumed that his son would play a part in the family wool business, and for the next three years he tried hard to persuade him to do so.

For men of nobility, the material would be made of silk or fine wool rather than the coarser fabrics used by the lower classes.

Although the authorities originally sentenced him to be incarcerated in a fortress where he would have been able to pursue some semblance of his professional activities, Friedrich Wilhelm IV of Prussia found this sentence to be illegal since he was not sentenced to death and “ graciously ” commuted it to lifetime imprisonment in a reformatory where his head was shaved, and he had to wear prisoner's garb and spend his time spinning wool.

He suggested to Gray that rock wool in place of excelsior would prevent similar accidents in the future.

Before motor transport became common, the Australian wool industry was heavily dependent on itinerant shearers who carried their swags from farm to farm ( called properties or " stations " in Australia ), but would not in general have taken kindly to being called " swagmen ".

The characteristics which a wool classer would examine are:

Lattimore in 1926 observed camel-pullers " knitting on the march ; if they ran out of yarn, they would reach back to the first camel of the file they were leading, pluck a handful of hair from the neck, and roll it in their palms into the beginning of a length of yarn ; a weight was attached to this, and given a twist to start it spinning, and the man went on feeding wool into the thread until he had spun enough yarn to continue his knitting ".

One possibility is that the name derives from the Proto-Indo-European root * wel -, meaning wool ( if so, the English word " wool " would actually be fairly closely related to the name of this god ).

Young men, known as koledari or vucari would dress long coats of sheep's wool and don grotesque masks, roaming around villages in groups and raising a lot of noise.

At one time, the spinning of wool was a central domestic occupation, and indicated a family's self-sufficiency, since the wool would be produced on their estates.

He would bring bobbins to the women at the looms when they called for them, and collected the full bobbins of spun cotton or wool thread.

Some landowners were forcing tenants off their farms so that they could engross their holdings and convert arable land into pasture for sheep, which had become more profitable as demand for wool increased.

In the late 1920s, Kimble County had become one of the state's leaders in the wool and mohair industry.

This enabled the abbey to become wealthy, especially through the sale of wool, and as a result the abbey was largely rebuilt in the Early English style.

Subsequent years saw wool milling and warship building become the major industries.

The site of a battle during the Wars of the Roses and a Royalist stronghold during the Civil War, Wakefield developed in spite of setbacks to become an important market town and centre for wool, exploiting its position on the navigable River Calder to become an inland port.

The industrial revolution and wool milling saw Innerleithen outgrow Traquair and become the larger village.

Melbourne had already become a centre of Australia's wool export trade.

Although wool has traditionally been associated with warm, bulky clothing meant for warding off cold weather, advances in making finer and finer fiber have made wool suits acceptable for warmer weather, as fabrics have accordingly become lighter and more supple.

Initially a pottery centre, producing Stamford Ware, by the Middle Ages it had become famous for its production of wool and the woollen cloth known as Stamford cloth-which " In Henry III's reign ... was well known in Venice ".

Regardless of breed, all Angoras must be monitored to prevent wool block, a potentially lethal condition where their digestive tracts become clogged with hair.

The Loughborough Endowed Schools were founded after Thomas Burton, a prosperous wool merchant from Loughborough, willed money for priests to pray for his soul upon his death in 1495 ; these priests went on to found the boys school that would become Loughborough Grammar School.

With its manufacturers of wool and fine linens, the city was able to become economically independent.

The South Devon railway reached Newton Abbot in 1846 and changed the town from being just a market town with associated trades ( leather and wool ) to become a base for industry.

In the 18th century cotton and wool started to become more common.

LGS was founded after Thomas Burton, a prosperous wool merchant from Loughborough, left money for priests to pray for his soul upon his death in 1495 ; these priests went on to found the school that would become LGS.

Always a luxury commodity, the intricate, tapestry-woven, fine wool shawl had become a fashionable wrap for the ladies of the English and French elite by the 1700s.

The term seems to have quickly become less precise, and was applied to a coarse cloth made of wool and linen, and in the reign of Edward III of England, the name was given to a woolen fabric.

By the 12th century Schio had become an important centre of prosperous wool manufacturing.

In the 15th century, L ' Aquila had become the second most powerful city in the Kingdom of Naples after Naples itself: there were half a million sheep, wool and saffron were exported throughout Europe ; all this unfortunately was lost when the Aquilans, during the war between the French and the Spaniards for the throne of Naples, sided with the French.

She has become so poor, she has run out of wool, simply rubbing her knitting needles together.

Macarthur is recognised as the pioneer of the wool industry that was to boom in Australia in the early 19th century and become a trademark of the nation.

The wool attains 8 to 12 inches of growth in a year, and if not shorn promptly in early spring may become matted.