Clothing trade engraving showing Leeds and Wakefield

‘The prospects of the two most remarkable Towns in the North of England For the Clothing Trade, Leeds as it appears from Holbeck Road’, demonstrates how important Leeds was in the clothing industry from the 1680s onwards. Leeds was a rich and populous town heavily involved in manufacturing cloth and clothing. By the end of the 1700s there were 20 large factories that aided the production of cloth, from spinning to dyeing.

Engraving, 1684, reprinted in 1715.