The wealth of many Flemish cities (as their Belltowers and cloth halls testify) came from the drapery industry.

The square got its current shape and surface after the demolition of the old Cloths Halls around the still existing Kortrijk Belfry.

Piece Hall remained a cloth hall until the 1830's, when handloom weavers were replaced by mills and cloth halls were no longer needed.

The Corn Exchange and First and Third White Cloth Halls were all situated in close proximity, creating a market area in the city centre.

In 1773 Arthur founded William Lupton and Co. and he sat on the original committee of the Cloth Halls regulating their activities.

Despite the vastness of the space, humanity clearly dominates the scene: South American street musicians gather before the Sukiennice (Cloth Halls) that cut the square in half.

After construction of the two prior white cloth halls in 1711 and 1756 there was a meeting in 1774 to plan the building of yet another cloth hall in Leeds.

Other, similar cloth halls have existed in other Polish as well as other European cities such as in Ypres, Belgium; Braunschweig, and in Leeds, England; but the one in Kraków is the best-known and best-preserved.

A few years later, a market place and cloth hall were built as well.

A cloth hall and belfry were erected on the market square in the mid 14th century.

The cloth hall's construction started in 1425 and ended 20 years later, with only seven of eleven planned bays completed.

A cloth hall was built at the beginning of the 15th century, which was later transformed into the city hall.

Historically more important, as it held its own trade market Béguinage and cloth hall; but the city never expanded beyond the large market square.

The Piece Hall is the former cloth hall, where the trading of woollen cloth pieces was done.

The wealth of many Flemish cities (as their Belltowers and cloth halls testify) came from the drapery industry.

It has the same monumental simplicity as well as the fine proportions of the Ypres Cloth Hall (500).

It incorporates a numeral from a face of clock of the Cloth Hall, Ypres.

The interior arcades of the cloth hall continue to serve as shops selling crafts and tourist trinkets; but the commerce around the square has become much more serious.

The internal mooting competition is held in the LMU Courtroom at Cloth Hall Court.

When this Cloth hall became too small, a larger one was built on the location of the present Theatre Square (Schouwburgplein), the 'Large Halls'.

Piece Hall remained a cloth hall until the 1830's, when handloom weavers were replaced by mills and cloth halls were no longer needed.

The 2nd cloth hall was much larger than its predecessor but it only served 20 years until the construction of the enormous 3rd White Cloth Hall.

There is sometimes a permanent covered market building (the cloth hall), and the entire area is a traditional meeting place for local people as well as a centre for trade.

The custom is for the modern mystery play to be performed every fifth year, usually July or August, at the great market place in Bruges before the medieval cloth hall.

Despite the vastness of the space, humanity clearly dominates the scene: South American street musicians gather before the Sukiennice (Cloth Halls) that cut the square in half.

The 2nd White Cloth hall was a marketplace for the sale of undyed cloth in Holbeck, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England.

The museum building was erected in 1640 by Arent van 'Gravesande as a cloth hall (lakenhal in Dutch) - a guild hall for cloth merchants.

The Cloth Hall was built in 1626-1627 by Richard Emmes, a master carpenter of Speenhamland for the Newbury Corporation as a cloth factory.

He regularly travelled to Rochdale to sell his work in the local pubs where most of the business of Rochdale was conducted as there was no cloth hall at that time.

It is an appropriate image for the gate to what was in the late 18th and early 19th centuries a cloth hall, where handloom weavers who produced cloth in their homes came to sell it...

At the center of the plaza, surrounded by row houses (kamienice) and noble residences, stands the Renaissance cloth hall Sukiennice flanked by the Town Hall Tower (Wieża ratuszowa).

Later that day we toured a collection of old Dutch tile, household furnishings and paintings at the Lakenhal Municipal Museum (Stedelijk Museum De Lakenhal), which occupies the city's 1640 cloth hall.