Valorisation Patrimoine Sud Tarn
Panel 11
Let's recall that there also existed, for the slats (‘cuirots’), the corporation of slats brokers.
The wool merchants, who acquire the wool in a roughly raw state known as "washed wools," supply the demand...
Their raison d'être is to fulfill complex orders, thus allowing each merchant to specialize!
Finally, let's not forget the “Condition Publique”, which assigns a "normal commercial weight" to a merchandise, which is essentially hygrometric. An initiative by Charles Sabatié in 1889, who created this institution to prevent any disputes!
* freshly dried skins taking on the appearance of parchment
Sources:
Illustrations taken from the work "Le délainage et sa capitale Mazamet" by Gaston POULAIN - 1951
And from the book "Mille et une duites" by Alain Le Guehennec – 1984
