Introduction: Conference: "Textiles and economy in the Middle Ages, " Copenhagen, 19-21 April 2012 / Carsten Jahnke -- Textile production, organisation and theoretical perspectives on trade in the Scandinavian Viking age / Eva Andersson Strand -- Weaving wealth : cloth and trade in Viking age and medieval Iceland / Michèle Hayeur Smith -- Technology and textile production from the Viking age and the Middle Ages : Norwegian cases / Ingvild Øye -- Brides, donors, traders : imports into Anglo-Saxon England / Gale R. Owen-Crocker -- Silk trade to Scandinavia in the Viking age / Marianne Vedeler -- Luxury for everyone? Embroideries on leather shoes and the consumption of silk yarn in 11th-13th century Northern Europe / Gitte Hansen -- The flax and linen of medieval Novgorod / Heidi M. Sherman -- The dual crises of the late medieval Florentine cloth industry, c. 1320-c. 1420 / John Munro -- The trade with Fustian from Germany to Denmark in the late Middle Ages / Kilian Baur -- Cloth production and cloth trade in Hanseatic towns with regional and non-regional products reflected in normative and other sources / Rudolf Holbach -- Cloth in the large cities of medieval Poland : production and trade / Jerzy Maik -- Hanseatic textile production in 15th century long distance trade / Angela Ling Huang -- Noble customers of cloth at the Frankfurt fairs around the year 1500 / Thomas Ertl and Michael Rothmann -- The missing link : the distribution revolution of the 15th century / Stuart Jenks.