The silk industry of Renaissance Venice

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    • Molà, Luca

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The silk industry of Renaissance Venice

Luca Molà

Johns Hopkins University Press, c2000

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"Revision of the author's thesis (Ph.D.)--Johns Hopkins University, 1996"--LC data

Includes bibliographical references (p. [409]-442) and index

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内容説明

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 Mola 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, Mola 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. Mola 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.

目次

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

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