Cotton in Context
Subtitle: Manufacturing, Marketing, and Consuming Textiles in the German-speaking World (1500-1900)
Contributors: Häusler, Eric; Murr, Karl Borromäus; Breil, Michaela; Menolfi, Ernest; Martens, Vibe Maria; Wimmler, Jutta; Edwards, Eiluned; Karl, Barbara
Series: Ding, Materialität, Geschichte -- v. 4; Ding, Materialität, Geschichte
Publisher: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
Published: 2019
Place of publication: Gottingen
Language: eng
Number of pages: 425
ISBN-13: 9783412515119
Subjects: Cotton manufacture; Cotton fabrics; Tissus de coton
Table of contents: title: Intro; Title Page; Copyright; Table of Contents; Preface; Introduction: Swiss Cotton; title: 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; Textile Printing in early modern Augsburg: at the Crossroads of Local and Global Histories of Industry | Karl Borromäus Murr and Michaela Breil; title: Early Textile Printing in Eastern Switzerland and its Forgotten B(l)oom around 1800 | Ernest MenolfiThe Art of Making Indienne: Knowing How to Dye in Eighteenth-Century Switzerland | Kim Siebenhüner; An Apron's Tale: Innovative Colours and Fashionable Dress between India and the Swiss Cantons | Claudia Ravazzolo; Dyeing Woollens in Eighteenth-Century Berlin: The Königliches Lagerhaus and the Globalisation of Prussia through Colouring Materials | Jutta Wimmler; PART 2 The Business of Textiles: Marketing and Product Innovation; title: Portuguese Product Development in Bengal: A Case Study from the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries | Barbara KarlSelling through Samples? The Role of Objects in Merchant Communication | Gabi Schopf; Swiss Silks for New York: Diaries and Pattern Books of the Zurich Silk Industry, 1847-1861 | Alexis Schwarzenbach; Marketing avant la lettre: The Swiss Embroidery Industry 1850-1912 Eric Häusler; PART 3 The Consumption of Textiles: Clothes and Fabrics; The Global Cotton Trade on the European Fringe: Imports, Consumption and the Influence of Indian Cottons on Denmark 1660-1806 | Vibe Maria Martens; title: The Duisburger Intelligenz-Zettel as a Source for Textile Research: Supply and Consumption of Silk and Cotton Textiles in Western Prussia in the second Half of the Eighteenth Century | Isa Fleischmann-HeckTextiles and Clothes in the Probate Inventories of Vienna's Middle Classes, 1783-1823 | Aris Kafantogias; The Non-Revolutionary Fabric: The Consumption, Chronology, and Use of Cotton in early modern Bern | John Jordan; Notes on Contributors; Index of Names; Index of Places; Body