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1990 Symposium

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Textiles in Trade

1990 Proceedings:
Textiles in Trade
(OUT-OF-PRINT)

Second Biennial Symposium, September 14-16, 1990. Washington, DC.

Individual paper:

  • A Brief History of the Textile Society of America. - Milton Sonday

Keynote Address:

  • Silk in European and American Trade Before 1783: A Commodity of Commerce or Frivolous Luxury? - Natalie Rothstein

British Exports to the USA, 1776-1914: Organization and Strategy

  • The British Linen Trade with the United States in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. – N. B. Harte
  • Transatlantic Trade in Woolen Cloth, 1850-1914: The Role of Shoddy. - David T. Jenkins
  • British Exports to the USA, 1776-1914: Organization and Strategy, Cottons and Printed Textiles. - Stanley Chapman

Individual Papers:

  • The American Market for Indian Textiles, 1785-1820: In the Twilight of Traditional Cloth Manufacture. - Susan S. Bean
  • The Manufacture and Trade of Luxury Textiles in the Age of Mercantilism. - Elisabeth Mikosch
  • A 'Little Book of Samples': Evidence of Textiles Traded to the American Indians. - Rita J. Adrosko

African Textile Trade

  • A Documentation of African Trade Cloths in the Philadelphia Port of History Museum. – Lisa Aronson
  • Textiles in Trade in West Africa. - Brigitte Menzel
  • The Role of the Middleman in the Trade of Real Madras Handkerchief (Madras Plaids). - Sandra Lee Evenson

Individual paper:

  • Reconstructing the Ancient Aegean/Egyptian Textile Trade. - Elizabeth Barber

Keynote Address:

  • Textiles and Trade in Tokugawa Japan. - William B. Hauser
Individual paper:

  • The Impact of the Mediterranean Silk Trade on Western Europe before 1200 A.D. - Anna Maria Muthesius

Middle Eastern Textiles in Trade

  • Allegories Unveiled: European Sources for a Safavid Velvet. - Mary Anderson McWilliams
  • The Market for Domestic and Imported Textiles in Sixteenth-century Istanbul. - Yvonne J. Seng
  • Of Cabbages and Kings: Prices of Mughal Furnishing Fabrics and the Meaning of Mughal Money. - Ellen S. Smart
  • Carpets for Commerce: Rug-Weaving in the Caucasus. - Carol Bier

Individual paper:

  • Indian Trade Cloth in Egypt: The Newberry Collection. - Ruth Barnes

Textiles in Southeast Asian Trade

  • Revolving Bananas: The Influences of Indian Trade Textiles on Javanese Batik Design. (abstract) - Robyn Maxwell
  • Local Textile Trading Systems in Indonesia: An Example from Flores Island. - Roy W. Hamilton
  • Labor Organization and Textile Trade in Northern Thailand in the Nineteenth Century. - Katherine A. Bowie
  • Indian Textiles for the Thai Market: A Royal Prerogative? (abstract) - John Guy

Individual paper:

  • Ancient West Mexican Clothing and Its Ecuadorian Origins: New Evidence of Maritime Contacts. (abstract) – Patricia Rieff Anawalt

Traditional Textiles in the Tourist Trade

  • Studio and Soirée: The Use and Misuse of Chinese Textiles in a European Setting. - Verity Wilson
  • Toba Batak Textile Inventions. - Sandra A. Niessen
  • Trade in Hispanic Weavings of Northern New Mexico and the Social Construction of Tradition. - Suzanne Baizerman
  • Modern Traditions: The Impact of the Trade in Traditional Textiles on the Sakaka of Northern Potosi, Bolivia. - Elayne L. Zorn
  • Woolen Textile Production in Momostenango. - Anne M. Lambert
  • Moccasins into Slippers: Traditions and Transformations in Nineteenth Century Woodlands Indian Textiles. - Ruth B. Phillips

Individual papers:

  • Trade and the Post-War Textile Industry in the United States. - Lynn Felsher
  • Textile Design in the Marketplace. - John E. Vollmer

 

     
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