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Cotton in Context
Manufacturing, Marketing, and Consuming Textiles in the German-speaking World (1500 – 1900)
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eBook - PDF
Cotton in Context
Manufacturing, Marketing, and Consuming Textiles in the German-speaking World (1500 – 1900)
About this book
- While cotton was a world-changing good in the early modern period, for producers, merchants, and consumers, it was but one of many different fabrics. This volume explores this dichotomy by contextualizing cotton within its contemporary culture of textiles. In doing, it focuses on a long, under-researched region: the German-speaking world, particularly Switzerland, which transformed into one of the most prolific European regions for the production of printed cottons in the eighteenth century. Sixteen contributions investigate the (globally entangled) history of Indiennes, silk, wool, and embroideries, giving new insights into the manufacturing, marketing, and consumption of textiles between 1500 and 1900.
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Table of contents
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- Introduction: Swiss Cotton – A Fabric and its Research Debates | Kim Siebenhüner
- Fibres, Fashion and Marketing: Textile Innovation in early modern Europe | John Styles
- Indian Block Printing: Technology, Entrepreneurship, and Innovation Across Time and Place | Eiluned Edwards
- PART 1 The Production of Textiles: Manufacturing and Colouring
- PART 2 The Business of Textiles: Marketing and Product Innovation
- PART 3 The Consumption of Textiles: Clothes and Fabrics
- Notes on Contributors
- Index of Names
- Index of Places
- Body