Who made the clothes in the Medieval Times?

Answer 1

Making clothing was a time- and labor-intensive process. Wool would be sheared from the sheep and carefully collected. The young children and females of the household would then clean and card the wool in preparation for spinning. The wool was then hand-spun on a spinning wheel into a long string and wound up. The strings would then be looped onto a loom and cross strings would be woven into the vertical strings to make a piece of cloth. The cloth would then generally be washed to help tighten up the weave, and then pieced together into clothing for a person.

In general, non-noble persons in medieval times would have perhaps two changes of clothing for summer and two changes of clothing for winter; the poorest may only have the clothes they were wearing at the time. Cloth was just too expensive to have dozens of outfits on hand except for the very wealthy, generally the upper nobility and royalty.

Answer 2

There were several different fibers used for cloth during the Middle Ages, and which was used depended largely on where a person lived.

Wool was very commonly used, even in countries where it was hot. Wool fibers were either spun into thread and woven, or made into felt. Both these systems came from ancient civilizations. Knitting seems to have been developed just about the time the Middle Ages ended.

Linen was made from flax. It was spun into thread and woven.

Silk was made from the cocoons of silk worms, spun and woven. Much of the silk used in Europe was imported from Asia, but some was produced in the Byzantine Empire.

Cotton was also developed as a cloth, with the threads being spun and woven. It was introduced into Greek speaking countries during the conquest of the Persian Empire by Alexander the great. It did not come into widespread use in much of Europe, however. During the Middle Ages, some people in Western Europe were aware of it, and they wrote of wool that was produced on trees as a description of cotton being grown.

Furs of various types were commonly used for making clothes.

Medieval clothes were also made of leather.

Answer 3

Most people made their own clothing, but when the rich wanted clothing they called on the seamstress or the tailor.

Answer 4

They wove the yarn on hand looms and also knitted garments.