Materias primas - History Lab https://historylab.es Fri, 20 May 2022 15:10:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://historylab.es/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-icono-historylab-32x32.jpg Materias primas - History Lab https://historylab.es 32 32 Value of cloth sales in Castile, 1614-1616 https://historylab.es/value-of-cloth-sales-in-castile-1614-1616/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=value-of-cloth-sales-in-castile-1614-1616 Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:28:46 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/valor-de-las-ventas-de-tejidos-en-castilla-1614-1616/ The resource reflects the monetary value of different types of linen, wool and silk in many areas of the Crown of Castile.

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]]> The author, José Ignacio Andrés Ucendo, offers us a statistical overview of the price of different fibres, such as wool, silk and linen, in different territories of the Crown of Castile at a time contextualised by the decline of civil manufacturing at the beginning of the 17th century. Overall, wool was traded more than linen and silk, which were the second and third most traded products respectively. By areas, in Old Castile the predominant fabric was wool, taking 73.6% of the market, this value being lower in Andalusian localities with 44%. Within the woollen cloths, the most traded were those of Segovia, Cordoba, Úbeda and Baeza; logistical centres of production. Thus, the market was divided into two areas: Andalusia and the Northern Plateau. The author notes that Andalusian consumption was greater than that of the north due to the difficulties that the Segovian drapery had in marketing its products; a crisis in demand from which it barely recovered. In the 18th century, consumption patterns were reversed, with linen dethroning wool in Castile. These consumption and marketing dynamics are similar to the data provided for the Catalan area of the Crown of Aragon.

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]]> The Franco-Spanish balance of trade in the mid-16th century https://historylab.es/the-franco-spanish-balance-of-trade-in-the-mid-16th-century/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-franco-spanish-balance-of-trade-in-the-mid-16th-century Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:28:40 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/la-balanza-comercial-franco-espanola-a-mediados-del-siglo-xvi/ A resource that reflects the economic nature of the port of Bilbao, which is a major importer of raw materials and products, with a high incidence of commercial companies working for others

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]]> The trade balance is a record that measures the relationship between imports and exports in a particular area and period. The contrast between the two determines the balance, that is, the positive or negative difference in the balance of trade. The author’s resource is based on Franco-Spanish trade through the port of Bilbao between 1544 and 1550. In general terms, the balance of trade showed a clear trade deficit with Spain, with more materials and goods being bought from France than were sold to it. Depending on the nature of the trading company (own account, in company, or on behalf of others), the results, although they follow the same deficit trend, have different impacts. On behalf of others, products were exported for a total value of 1,430,522 maravedís, and 237,911,576 maravedís were imported; a negative balance of 236,481,054. All this shows the nature of the port of Bilbao based on transit trade, where the goods received were hardly retained and from where they were distributed to the rest of the Peninsula. A small amount of the large volume of imports was destined for the local Bilbao trade, while the bulk went to Navarre, La Rioja and Castile, and even to America via Seville.

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