Freese (Friesian cloth) - thick woolen cloth with a long uncut hair. Manufactures frieze, the people living in the territory of today's Netherlands and Germany, and very appreciated in Europe. Friesian fabric helped spread the decline of the Roman Empire. In this regard, in southern Europe dropped sharply sheep, so that major centers of manufacturing wool moved to the European north, where and declared themselves Friesian tissue. Proof of their recognition may be the fact that at the beginning of the IX. Frankish King Charles I (Charlemagne) brought them as a gift to another ruler, Harun al-Rashid, the caliph of Baghdad.
Frieze
Freese (Friesian cloth) - thick woolen cloth with a long uncut hair. Manufactures frieze, the people living in the territory of today's Netherlands and Germany, and very appreciated in Europe. Friesian fabric helped spread the decline of the Roman Empire. In this regard, in southern Europe dropped sharply sheep, so that major centers of manufacturing wool moved ...