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- Title
Asian knowledge and the development of calico printing in Europe in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
- Authors
Riello, Giorgio
- Abstract
From the seventeenth century, the brilliance and permanence of colour and the exotic nature of imported Asian textiles attracted European consumers. The limited knowledge of colouring agents and the general absence of textile printing and dyeing in Europe were, however, major impediments to the development of a cotton textile-printing and -dyeing industry in Europe. This article aims to chart the rise of a European calico-printing industry in the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries by analysing the knowledge transfer of textile-printing techniques from Asia to Europe.
- Subjects
ASIA; EUROPE; TEXTILE industry; CALICO-printing; DYES &; dyeing; CLOTHING industry; COLOR in the textile industries; TEXTILE printing; TEXTILES; ECONOMIC conditions in Asia; INTERNATIONAL economic relations
- Publication
Journal of Global History, 2010, Vol 5, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
1740-0228
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S1740022809990313