The silk industry of Renaissance Venice /

Annotation 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 w...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Molà, Luca, 1962-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000.
Temas:
Silk industry > Italy > Venice > History.
Silk industry > Government policy > Italy > Venice > History.
Soie > Industrie > Italie > Venise > Histoire.
Soie > Industrie > Politique gouvernementale > Italie > Venise > Histoire.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Industries > Fashion & Textile Industry.
Silk industry.
Silk industry > Government policy.
Zijdeïndustrie.
Renaissance.
Italy > Venice.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The Growth of International Competition
  • A Changing Industrial Geography
  • The Dissemination of Techniques
  • The Venetian Industry
  • Regulating Commerce in Basic Materials: Protectionism or Free Trade?
  • The Strategy of Market Diversification
  • Dyeing: The Expanding Palette
  • Weaving: Threats to Traditional Standards
  • A Sixteenth-Century Innovation: The "New Silk Draperies"
  • Inventions: Patenting for the Silk Industry
  • The Mainland State
  • Sericulture in the Terraferma
  • Silk Thread: A Growing International Demand
  • Cloth Production and the Territorial State
  • Charters and Privileges for the Silk Industry in Italy, 1437-1615
  • Inventions for the Silk Industry Presented to the Venetian Government in the Sixteenth Century
  • Partnership Contract Drawn Up in Venice by Giovan Battista Guidoboni and Maggino Gabrielli for Patenting Inventions in Several European States, 1586.

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