 Factories were built that could produce goods at a larger scale than traditional handicraft, for example large-scale farming to produce wool of high quality.To this end, rural areas in Sweden (including Finland) were divided into "spinning districts", each of which was controlled by a monopoly often held by a manufacture in Stockholm.During the later part of the 18th century, annually, approximately 6.000 households on the Swedish countryside were busy spinning wool for these manufactures.