Contents- Textiles in Trade- 1990

CONTENTS Preface A Brief History of the Textile Society of America. Milton Sonday Speakers 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. Negley Harte Transatlantic Trade in Woollen Cloth 1850-1914: The Role of Shoddy. David T. Jenkins Cottons and Printed Textiles. Stanley Chapman 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. L 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 Reconstructing the Ancient Aegean/Egyptian Textile Trade. Elizabeth Barber Keynote Address: Textiles and Trade in Tokugawa Japan. William B. Hauser The Impact of the Mediterranean Silk Trade on Western Europe before 1200 A.D. Anna Muthesius Middle Eastern Textiles in Trade. Allegories Unveiled: European Sources for a Safavid Velvet. Mary A, 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 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. (Precis only.) 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? (Precis only.) John Guy Ancient West Mexican Clothing and Its Ecuadorian Origins: New Evidence of Maritime Contacts. (Precis only.) Patricia Rieff Anawalt Traditional Textiles in the Tourist Trade. Studio and Soiree; The Use and Misuse of Chinese Textiles in a European Setting. Verity Wilson Toba Batak Textile Invention. 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 Woollen Textile Production in Momostenango, Guatemala. Anne M. Lambert Moccasins into Slippers: Traditions and Transformations in Nineteenth Century Woodlands Indian Textiles. Ruth B. Phillips Trade and the Post-War Textile Industry in the United States. Lynn Felsher Textile Design in the Marketplace. John E. Vollme