In the 1300s, the wool trade involved Newcastle upon Tyne.
Wool is the textile fibre obtained from sheep and other mammals, especially goats, rabbits, and camelids
Before the flowering of the Renaissance, the Medici and other great banking houses of Florence had built their wealth and banking system on their textile industry based on wool, overseen by the Arte della Lana, the wool guild: wool textile interests guided Florentine policies

