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The records of that time about the various types of cloths and other fabrics that were sold in the medieval cloth shops in Malmo, are as follows.
1. Sardug or sarduk, a thin, loosely woven and light fabric of linen and cotton; which was mostly used as lining, but also as outer fabric and later called sarge or sarsche (sarduk). It was produced in large quantities in Augsburg and Ulm. The price of 1 aln of Ulm sardug was in 1517 and 1540, 6 shillings and 1aln of Augsburg sardug in 1540 5 shillings.
2. Leysk or leyisk or leidisk or ledsk is a cloth from Leyden or Leiden (formerly Leitben), a city in the Dutch province of South-Holland, which in ancient times was renowned for its cloth production and where only two types of cloth, black and brown, were manufactured, each cloth piece measuring around 24 alns.
3. Hagenskt, a type of cloth manufactured in the Dutch city of The Hague. Each piece of ”hagenskt” cloth was considered to be 24 alns and the color was either black or brown. A ”hagenskt” aln cost 18 shillings in 1517 or 1 mark 2 shillings (1 mark = 16 shillings) which means a full piece of 24 anls cost 27 marks. The price of a piece of ”hagenskt” cloth rose significant- ly in the first half of the 1500s and was 50 marks in 1566.
4. Demskt or demst or deventerskt is a cloth referred to as one made in the Dutch city of Deventersk (mistakenly Demter) in the province of Overryssel, which, as known, joined the Hanseatic League and during the 1400s and 1500s had lively trade relations with the cities of the North, mainly the Norwegian city of Bergen.
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