Threads of Global Desire

Threads of Global Desire
Author: Dagmar Schäfer
Publisher: Pasold Studies in Textile, Dress and Fashion History
Total Pages: 447
Release: 2018-05
Genre: Clothing and dress
ISBN: 9781783272938

Considering silk as a major force of cross-cultural interaction, this book examines the integration of silk production and consumption into various cultures in the pre-modern world.

China's Silk Trade

China's Silk Trade
Author: Lillian M. Li
Publisher: Harvard Univ Asia Center
Total Pages: 318
Release: 1981
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780674119628

Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- The Technology of Silk -- The State and Traditional Enterprise -- The Silk Export Trade -- Foreign Trade and Domestic Growth -- Foreign Trade and the Rural Economy -- Foreign Trade and Modern Enterprise -- Conclusion -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Glossary I -- Glossary II -- Index -- Harvard East Asian Monographs.

American Silk, 1830-1930

American Silk, 1830-1930
Author: Jacqueline Field
Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
Total Pages: 372
Release: 2007
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN: 9780896725898

"Traces the American silk industry, once the world's largest, through case studies of the Nonotuck (Northampton, Massachusetts), Haskell (Westbrook, Maine), and Mallinson (New York and Pennsylvania) silk companies. Examines entrepreneurs as well as history of technology and products from sewing-machine thread to mass-produced plain and high-fashion silks"--Provided by publisher.

China’s Silk Trade

China’s Silk Trade
Author: Lillian M. Li
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 309
Release: 2020-03-17
Genre: History
ISBN: 1684172314

Of all the products associated with the material wealth and cultural splendor of traditional Chinese civilization, none was so quintessentially Chinese as silk. From the most ancient times silk played a role in Chinese history, both as a symbol of imperial tradition and as a mainstay of the peasant economy. This study analyzes the development of China's silk industry in the nineteenth and early twentieth century.

Unravelled Dreams

Unravelled Dreams
Author: Ben Marsh
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 503
Release: 2020-04-23
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1108418287

Reveals how commodity failure, as much as success, can shed light on aspirations, environment, and economic life in colonial societies.