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Threads of Global Desire - Silk in the Pre-Modern World (Hardcover)
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Threads of Global Desire - Silk in the Pre-Modern World (Hardcover)
Series: Pasold Studies in Textile, Dress and Fashion History
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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. Silk has
long been a global commodity that, because of its exceptional
qualities, high value and relative portability, came to be traded
over very long distances. Similarly, the silk industry - from
sericulture to the weaving of cloth - was one of the most important
fields of production in the medieval and early modern world. The
production and consumption of silks spread from China to Japan and
Korea and travelled westward as far as India, Persia and
theByzantine Empire, Europe, Africa and the Americas. As
contributors to this book demonstrate, in this process of diffusion
silk fostered technological innovation and allowed new forms of
organization of labour to emerge. Its consumption constantly
reshaped social hierarchies, gender roles, aesthetic and visual
cultures,as well as rituals and representations of power. Threads
of Global Desire is the first attempt at considering a global
history of silk in the pre-modern era. The book examines the role
of silk production and use in various cultures and its relation to
everyday and regulatory practices. It considers silk as a major
force of cross cultural interaction through technological exchange
and trade in finished and semi-finished goods. Silks mediated
design and a taste for luxuries and were part of gifting practices
in diplomatic and private contexts. Silk manufacturing also
fostered thecirculation of skilled craftsmen, connecting different
centres and regions across continents and linking the countryside
to urban production. DAGMAR SCHAEFER is Director of Department 3
'Artefacts, Action, and Knowledge'at the Max Planck Institute for
the History of Science in Berlin and Professor h.c. of the History
of Technology at the Technical University, Berlin. GIORGIO RIELLO
is Professor of Global History and Culture at the University of
Warwick. He has published extensively on the history of material
culture and trade in early modern Europe and Asia and in particular
on textiles and fashion. LUCA MOLA is Professor of Early Modern
Europe: History of the Renaissance and the Mediterranean in a World
Perspective at the European University Institute in Fiesole.
Contributors: JOSE L. GASCH-TOMAS, SURAIYA FAROQHI, KAROLINA
HUTKOVA, FUJITA KAYOKO, BEN MARSH, RUDOLPHMATTHEE, LESLEY ELLIS
MILLER, DAVID MITCHELL, LUCA MOLA, LISA MONNAS, AMANDA PHILLIPS,
GIORGIO RIELLO, DAGMAR SCHAEFER, ANGELA SHENG
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