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From The Met:

Symposium: Interwoven Globe: The Worldwide Textile Trade, 1500–1800
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 4 October 2013

International scholars explore the impact of the burgeoning textile trade in the early modern period, focusing on specific aspects of how trade textiles influenced global economics, social history, and design aesthetics. The program is presented in conjunction with the exhibition Interwoven Globe: The Worldwide Textile Trade, 1500–1800 and made possible in part by the Clara Lloyd-Smith Weber Fund. Free with museum admission.

P R O G R A M

10:30  Amelia Peck — Welcome and Introduction

10:45  Louise Mackie — Ottoman Turkish Silks in Italian and Russian Trade and Diplomacy

11:15  Rudi Matthee — The Dutch East India Company and Asian Raw Silk: From Iran to Bengal via China and Japan

11:45  Jessica Hallett — Textiles, Trade, and Taste: Portugal and Asia in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

12:15  Masako Yoshida — The International Expansion of Textiles with Flower, Bird, and Animal Designs

12:45  Break for lunch

2:30  Ebeltje Hartkamp-Jonxis — Aspects of the Luxury Trade in Indian Chintzes for the Dutch Market

3:00  John Styles — East Meets West: Everyday Fashion in Eighteenth-Century London

3:30  Colleen E. Kriger — Lost and Found in Translation: West African Textiles and Atlantic Trade

4:00  Donna Pierce — Popular and Prevalent: The Impact of Asian Textiles on Colonial Mexico