The Great Depression of the 1930s and the Customs war with Germany closed western markets to Polish textiles while the Bolshevik Revolution (1917) and the Civil War in Russia (1918–1922) put an end to the most profitable trade with the East.
Den store depression i 1930'erne og handelsembargoen mellem Tyskland og Polen lukkede markedet for polske tekstiler i vest, mens Den russiske revolution (1917) og borgerkrigen i Rusland (1918-1922) satte en stopper for handelen i øst.