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The Flemish clothmakers

Béjar, Sierra de Béjar, Salamanca

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The Flemish clothmakers

Historical milestone · Béjar, Sierra de Béjar, Salamanca

Image of Béjar, not of the place itself.

The ducal house brought Flemish master clothiers in 1691 to boost the textile industry. Many emigrated in the first years, but others kept arriving and in the nineteenth century fine cloth-making consolidated as the activity that defined the city.

1691

Photo: Frayle from Salamanca, España (CC BY 2.0)

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