Interwoven globe
Subtitle: the worldwide textile trade, 1500-1800
By: edited by Amelia Peck ; with contributions by Amy Bogansky, Joyce Denney, John Guy, Maria João Pacheco Ferreira, Elena Phipps, Marika Sardar, Cynthia V. A. Schaffner, Kristen Stewart, and Melinda Watt
Contributors: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art; distributed by Yale University Press
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 350
ISBN-13: 9781588394965; 9780300196986
Subjects: Textile design; Textile fabrics; History; Exhibitions; Exoticism in art
Other titles: Worldwide textile trade, 1500-1800
Description: "Beginning in the 16th century, the golden age of European navigation created a vigorous textile trade, and a breathtaking variety of textile designs subsequently spread across the globe. Trade textiles blended the traditional designs, skills, and tastes of their cultures of origin, with new techniques learned through global exchange, creating beautiful new works that are also historically fascinating. Interwoven Globe is the first book to analyze these textiles within the larger history of trade and design. Richly illustrated texts explore the interrelationship of textiles, commerce, and taste from the age of discovery to the 19th century, including a detailed discussion of 120 illuminating works. From the elaborate dyed and painted cotton goods of India to the sumptuous silks of Japan, China, Turkey, and Iran, the paths of influence are traced westward to Europe and the Americas. Essential to this exchange was the trade in highly valued natural dyes and dye products, underscoring the influence of global exploration on the aesthetics and production techniques of textiles, and the resulting fashion for the 'exotic.'"--Publisher's website.
Notes: Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Sept. 16, 2013-Jan. 5, 2014.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-343) and index.
Table of contents: title: Trade textiles at the Metropolitan Museum : a history / Amelia Peck; title: "One thing leads to another" : Indian textiles and the early globalization of style / John Guy; title: The Iberian globe : textile traditions and trade in Latin America / Elena Phipps; title: Chinese textiles for Portuguese tastes / Maria João Pacheco Ferreira; title: Japan and the textile trade in context / Joyce Denney; title: Silk along the seas : Ottoman Turkey and Safavid Iran in the Global textile trade / Marika Sardar; title: "Whims and fancies" : Europeans respond to textiles from the East / Melinda Watt; title: "India chints" and "China taffaty" : East Indian Company textiles for the North American market / Amelia Peck; title: Global colors : dyes and the dye trade / Elena Phipps.