books.google.com - This book traces the dynamic advances in textile technology and changes in the structure of demand that accompanied the rise, in the late Middle Ages, of an Italian industry geared to mass production of cotton fabrics. The Italian manufacture, based on borrowed techniques and imitations of Islamic cloth,...http://books.google.com/books/about/The_Italian_Cotton_Industry_in_the_Later.html?id=99s8AAAAIAAJ&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareThe Italian Cotton Industry in the Later Middle Ages
