Flanders and the Flemish
The region across from Britain on the continent, including much of what is now the Low Countries, was at the center of European economic activity between 1000 and 1500. Scottish wool, hides, and other raw products were traded to Flanders in exchange for cloth, wines, glass, metalwork, etc. Flemish weavers also settled in the small Scottish towns along the coast, and Flemish merchants in Scotland imported and exported as well.
