- Hardcover: 360 pages
- Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art (September 24, 2013)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0300196989
- ISBN-13: 978-0300196986
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."
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