is its early days this was very much cottage industry-quite literally people would spin wool gathered from sheep and weave simple cloths on home-made looms .but the skill base and the technology began to develop and many of the family names we still have today weaver,Dyer tailor ,for example-remind us of the importance of this sector. And where there were sufficient cottages and groups of people with such skill we began to see concentrations of manufacturing- for example the Flemish weavers or the lace-makers in the English Midlands. As their reputation-and the quality of their goods grew so the basis of trading internationally in textiles and clothing was established