Author : Jacqueline Field
Publisher : Texas Tech University Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 13,50 MB
Release : 2007
Category : 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.
Author : United States. Industrial Commission
Publisher :
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 20,42 MB
Release : 1901
Category : Silk industry
ISBN :
Author : Luca Molà
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 35,35 MB
Release : 2003-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0801876559
How 16th century Venetian silk manufacturers met the challenge of demand for lighter and cheaper fabric. The manufacture of luxury textiles, such as silk, was central to an Italian Renaissance economy based on status and conspicuous consumption. From the rapidly changing fashions that drove demand to the jobs created for craftsmen, weavers, and merchants, the wealth and prestige associated with silk throughout Europe made it Italy's leading export industry. In this important book, Luca Molà examines the silk industry in Renaissance Venice amid changing markets, suppliers, producers, and government regulations. Drawing on archival research and a vast amount of European scholarship, Molà documents the innovations Venetians made in manufacturing and marketing to spur the silk industry. He uncovers the alliance between manufacturers and government to promote the industry in a changing international economic environment. Through flexible laws, quality was regulated to meet the varying requirements of an increasing range of customers. Molà also analyzes state policy that favored the development and organization of silk producers throughout the Terraferma. His findings contribute in an important way to the ongoing scholarly assessment of Venice's place in the economy of the Renaissance and the Mediterranean world.
Author : Giovanni Federico
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 15,96 MB
Release : 1997-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521581982
An Economic History of the Silk Industry, 1830-1930 is an ambitious historical analysis of the development of a major commodity.
Author : Ben Marsh
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 503 pages
File Size : 34,4 MB
Release : 2020-04-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1108418287
Reveals how commodity failure, as much as success, can shed light on aspirations, environment, and economic life in colonial societies.
Author : Louise Rienzi
Publisher : Franklin Classics
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 14,11 MB
Release : 2018-10-12
Category :
ISBN : 9780342552344
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Sharon Farmer
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 48,15 MB
Release : 2016-10-14
Category : History
ISBN : 0812293312
For more than one hundred years, from the last decade of the thirteenth century to the late fourteenth, Paris was the only western European town north of the Mediterranean basin to produce luxury silk cloth. What was the nature of the Parisian silk industry? How did it get there? And what do the answers to these questions tell us? According to Sharon Farmer, the key to the manufacture of silk lies not just with the availability and importation of raw materials but with the importation of labor as well. Farmer demonstrates the essential role that skilled Mediterranean immigrants played in the formation of Paris's population and in its emergence as a major center of luxury production. She highlights the unique opportunities that silk production offered to women and the rise of women entrepreneurs in Paris to the very pinnacles of their profession. The Silk Industries of Medieval Paris illuminates aspects of intercultural and interreligious interactions that took place in silk workshops and in the homes and businesses of Jewish and Italian pawnbrokers. Drawing on the evidence of tax assessments, aristocratic account books, and guild statutes, Farmer explores the economic and technological contributions that Mediterranean immigrants made to Parisian society, adding new perspectives to our understanding of medieval French history, luxury trade, and gendered work.
Author : Frank Warner
Publisher : Dalcassian Publishing Company
Page : 794 pages
File Size : 25,9 MB
Release : 1921-01-01
Category : Silk industry
ISBN :
Author : Yong-Woo Lee
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 42,79 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789251042939
The continuous improvement and effective dissemination of the technology for silk reeling and testing are vital in meeting the ever increasing demand for quality raw silk throughout the world. This bulletin covers a wide range of techniques in the silk reeling industry. Details are given in each chapter on the handling of fresh cocoons, drying and storage of cocoons, cocoon boiling and reeling, raw silk-reeling and finishing, water quantity and quality, utilization of by-products and maintenance of the machinery used. An appendix illustrates the silkworm processes from larva to final production of silk.
Author : Jonathan E. Hillman
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 12,81 MB
Release : 2021-10-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0063046296
An expert on China’s global infrastructure expansion provides an urgent look at the battle to connect and control tomorrow’s networks. From the ocean floor to outer space, China’s Digital Silk Road aims to wire the world and rewrite the global order. Taking readers on a journey inside China’s surveillance state, rural America, and Africa’s megacities, Jonathan Hillman reveals what China’s expanding digital footprint looks like on the ground and explores the economic and strategic consequences of a future in which all routers lead to Beijing. If China becomes the world’s chief network operator, it could reap a commercial and strategic windfall, including many advantages currently enjoyed by the United States. It could reshape global flows of data, finance, and communications to reflect its interests. It could possess an unrivaled understanding of market movements, the deliberations of foreign competitors, and the lives of countless individuals enmeshed in its networks. However, China’s digital dominance is not yet assured. Beijing remains vulnerable in several key dimensions, the United States and its allies have an opportunity to offer better alternatives, and the rest of the world has a voice. But winning the battle for tomorrow’s networks will require the United States to innovate and take greater risks in emerging markets. Networks create large winners, and this is a contest America cannot afford to lose.
