And was Jerusalem builded here? Community clothing and reconnecting British textile manufacturing

The creation of textiles and clothing is seen by many historians as being foundational to a society generating wealth and prosperity. It creates and shapes civilisations and gives them power through the trading of those products internationally.

The method of creating silk was closely guarded by Chinese Emperors for centuries before European spies smuggled out silkworms and the mulberry bushes they fed on. This trade was important enough for that medieval supply chain to be called the Silk Road. Linen manufacture from flax dates back at least 25,000 years, and was key to the rise of Egypt. Wool was enormously important in Britain and the Low Countries from the 13th century, and taxes on them were the main source of income for those governments. The Speaker of the House of Lords sits on what is known as the Woolsack and has done so since 1621 at least. Australia and New Zealand are and always have been heavily involved with sheep farming as part of that colonial trade network.