Valorisation Patrimoine Sud Tarn
Panel 3
Fellmongery, an Increasingly Prosperous Industry
Fellmongery constantly progressed to include, by 1950, around fifty factories processing approximately 100,000 sheep skins per day (more than 25 million per year) and 42 tanneries.
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More than 500 firms in Mazamet were involved
in importing skins, fellmongery, trading,
washing and carbonizing wool, wool and
leather brokerage.
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Finally, driven by fellmongery, hosiery factories,
Basque beret makers, leather goods
manufacturers, cutting, fertilizer, and chemical
product companies emerged and thrived
as well.
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Thus, Mazamet managed to grow and shine,
according to its proud motto, despite the fiercest competition.
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The excellence of Mazamet's fellmongery products, especially wool, was the essential condition for this prodigious development. This success is due to the spirit of boldness and entrepreneurship, commercial and financial skill, a sense of fair management, and the experience and wisdom of the workers, which have always characterized the people of this small town with an exceptionally grand destiny.
