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This paper investigates innovations of the early modern European textile industry and practices of cultural transfer using seventeenth-century Venetian Crete as a case study. It explores the use of novelties, such as mixed cloths, in the dowries assigned to brides in the urban setting of Candia (mod...

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Έκδοση: Firenze University Press 2022
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spelling oapen-20.500.12657-566052022-06-02T03:30:02Z Chapter Innovations and the art of deception: mixed cloths in Venetian Crete (17th century) Markaki, Tatiana Venetian Crete innovations mixed fabrics cultural transfer seventeenth century. This paper investigates innovations of the early modern European textile industry and practices of cultural transfer using seventeenth-century Venetian Crete as a case study. It explores the use of novelties, such as mixed cloths, in the dowries assigned to brides in the urban setting of Candia (modern Heraklion) and the surrounding countryside during the period 1600-1645. It draws on computer-processed data from marriage agreements and inventories of movables from the State Archives of Venice. It illustrates, through a comparative lens, how brides used (silk) mixed fabrics to differentiate themselves from others and how Venetian Crete followed the changes in production techniques of the European textile industry. 2022-06-01T12:29:34Z 2022-06-01T12:29:34Z 2022 chapter ONIX_20220601_9788855185653_789 9788855185653 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/56605 eng Datini Studies in Economic History application/pdf Attribution 4.0 International 29744.pdf https://books.fupress.com/doi/capitoli/978-88-5518-565-3_4 Firenze University Press 10.36253/978-88-5518-565-3.04 10.36253/978-88-5518-565-3.04 bf65d21a-78e5-4ba2-983a-dbfa90962870 9788855185653 2 10 Florence open access
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