Comment by hollerith

It is not true that "cotton . . . was a necessity to fuel the industrialization of textile production in England".

England produced so much wool that it exported most of it (to other European countries). Flax was also very common.

Factories full of steam-powered machines were going to replace the existing arrangement in which most households on farms and in villages manually spun their own yarn and wove their own cloth with or without access to cheap cotton.