“Besides, the consumption of all sorts of silk fabrics should be seen in Mexico as the main point of its commerce; clergy men, gentlemen, merchants, bourgeois, artisans, craftsmen and even Africans and mulatto, they all dress in silk for most part of the year. Therefore Spain, together with France, should focus firmly on this trade in order to rectify the deterioration in the situation due to the introduction of silk from China to Mexico.” (Translated from Jean de Monségur, 1709, chap. XXXVII..
Tracing the social lives of tea, porcelain, and silk, it is discernible that the world had been livi...
With a population of between 6 and 8 million in 1700, larger than the Netherlands, Denmark, or Engla...
Casta painting, De albarasado y mestiza, barsino, Miguel Cabrera, 1763, oïl on canvas, 131 cm x 103 ...
The age of global exchange began in the 16th century with the sea trade established by the Spanish a...
Silk appears frequently in many Mexican textiles and garments such as rebozos, skirts, and huipils o...
“There are other woollen fabrics coming from England, whose consumption is even more important than ...
The essay examines Spanish royal wardrobe accounts and notarial records, and French commercial corre...
Many different indigenous communities from Oaxaca have been exposed to trade routes that have been a...
The aim of this work is to delve into the history of Mexico’s colonial silk industry and of its work...
The origin of cultivated silk in Mexico can be traced to Cortez’s first shipment from Spain of Bomby...
“There is nor Church nor private in the Western Indies, who does not consume this kind of gold silk ...
The major export in the China Trade, besides tea, was silk, and this was mostly exported to the Un...
A stunning yellow moiré dress from the early 18th century is conserved in the collection of the Nati...
Calvo Thomas. Richard J. Salvucci, Textile and Capitalism in Mexico: an Economic History. The Obraje...
En el siglo XVIII, el gusto francés se impone decididamente en las cortes europeas. El cambio de gu...
Tracing the social lives of tea, porcelain, and silk, it is discernible that the world had been livi...
With a population of between 6 and 8 million in 1700, larger than the Netherlands, Denmark, or Engla...
Casta painting, De albarasado y mestiza, barsino, Miguel Cabrera, 1763, oïl on canvas, 131 cm x 103 ...
The age of global exchange began in the 16th century with the sea trade established by the Spanish a...
Silk appears frequently in many Mexican textiles and garments such as rebozos, skirts, and huipils o...
“There are other woollen fabrics coming from England, whose consumption is even more important than ...
The essay examines Spanish royal wardrobe accounts and notarial records, and French commercial corre...
Many different indigenous communities from Oaxaca have been exposed to trade routes that have been a...
The aim of this work is to delve into the history of Mexico’s colonial silk industry and of its work...
The origin of cultivated silk in Mexico can be traced to Cortez’s first shipment from Spain of Bomby...
“There is nor Church nor private in the Western Indies, who does not consume this kind of gold silk ...
The major export in the China Trade, besides tea, was silk, and this was mostly exported to the Un...
A stunning yellow moiré dress from the early 18th century is conserved in the collection of the Nati...
Calvo Thomas. Richard J. Salvucci, Textile and Capitalism in Mexico: an Economic History. The Obraje...
En el siglo XVIII, el gusto francés se impone decididamente en las cortes europeas. El cambio de gu...
Tracing the social lives of tea, porcelain, and silk, it is discernible that the world had been livi...
With a population of between 6 and 8 million in 1700, larger than the Netherlands, Denmark, or Engla...
Casta painting, De albarasado y mestiza, barsino, Miguel Cabrera, 1763, oïl on canvas, 131 cm x 103 ...