Mogadishu produced about 37,000 cloth pieces annually in 1847.
Evidence
Guillain estimated that there were about 1,000 weavers in 1847, and that the annual production of cloth amounted to some 37,000 pieces, each three yards long. This was consumed locally and also exported to the Swahili coast and northern Somaliland. Some of it travelled as far as the ports of Arabia, the Persian Gulf, the Red Sea, and Egypt. — I.M. Lewis, I. M. Lewis, A Modern History of the Somali_ Nation…, 738
Categorization
- XREF: Feeds a comparative thread on precolonial African commercial economies and Indian Ocean trade networks.