E-Book, Englisch, 0 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm
Molà / Mola The Silk Industry of Renaissance Venice
Erscheinungsjahr 2003
ISBN: 978-0-8018-7655-4
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)
E-Book, Englisch, 0 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm
ISBN: 978-0-8018-7655-4
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)
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.
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Weitere Infos & Material
List of Figures and Tables
Notes on Currency and Measures
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I: The Growth of International Competition
Chapter 1. A Changing Industrial Geography
Chapter 2. The Dissemination of Techniques
Part II: The Venetian Industry
Chapter 3. Regulating Commerce in Basic Materials: Protectionism or Free Trade?
Chapter 4. The Strategy of Market Diversification
Chapter 5. Dyeing: The Expanding Palette
Chapter 6. Weaving: Threats to Traditional Standards
Chapter 7. A Sixteenth-Century Innovation: The "New Silk Draperies"
Chapter 8. Inventions: Patenting for the Silk Industry
Part III: The Mainland State
Chapter 9. Sericulture in the Terraferma
Chapter 10. Silk Thread: A Growing International Demand
Chapter 11. Cloth Production and the Territorial State
Appendixes
Notes
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
