describe the nexus of merchants and cotton textile producers in proto industry
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In the proto-industrial stage, cotton was produced in the following ways:
(i) Merchant clothier bought wool from stapler, the person who sorted wool according to its fibres.
(ii) Then he took the wool to spinners to produce spun yarns.
(iii) Yarn (threads) were finally given to the weavers for weaving and the fullers who gathered cloths by pleating and finally sent to dyers for colouring.
As a result, a close relationship between town and countryside developed in which a network of commercial exchange existed between merchants and farmers.
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Merchants from towns moved to the countryside as the conditions in the country side proved favorable for the merchants to look for and provide money to the peasants and artisans to produce for the international market.
b. Merchants provided for raw material and money to the peasants and artisans in the country side who in turn produced for them
c.. With the shrinking of the open fields and Commons, peasants were left with small plots of land not sufficient to meet their family needs , merchants who had now turned to the countryside and provided an alternate source to the peasants and artisans.
d. It allowed peasants supplements their meagre incomes.
e. Peasants could involve their family members in production and could achieve full utilisation of labour resources.
f. It also enabled them to continue to stay in the countryside.
g. They cultivated for the in their small fields to meet the requirements of the merchants.
h.Artisans were provided with ready raw material and money which proved to be beneficial for them.
i.. This helped in developing a huge network of commercial exchanges between the merchants and producers,