Századok – 1998

Tanulmányok - Pach Zsigmond Pál: „Platea chapo ucza vocata”. A hazai posztóipar 16. századi történetéből IV/793

824 PACH ZSIGMOND PÁL too. In 1579 the Turks registered seven people called Csapó at Gyula, twenty at Békés, and several in the surrounding villages. A lot of fulling mills were registered, too. Four further centres of cloth industry could be found in the region of the Körös Rivers in those days. It can be concluded from the registries of sheep that wool was abundant for all of them. The cheap grey cloth made of the wool of the Hungarian racka sheep was of the same quality as the kebe cloth of the Turks. The year 1596 brought, however, a change to the worse in this field, too. During the so-called Fifteen Years War Tartar troops raided the region and ruined, among others, the plants of clothmaking. Cloth industry around the Körös Rivers was never resumed again and its memory lives only in family names and place-names.