This week on the blog, the back half of last-week's look at commercial textile production, discussing pre-modern trade in textiles:https://acoup.blog/2021/04/09/collections-clothing-how-did-they-make-it-part-ivb-cloth-money/ …
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Not only are there a lot of complexities in each stage of production which I couldn't get into, but there is also a TON of regional variation. I'm very Europe-Rome-Greece-Mesopotamia focused in this series because it's what I know, but obviously people make textiles everywhere.
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But hopefully actually foregrounding textile workers - who are *so often* left out of the popular imagination of the past - does something to bring this part of the pre-modern economy (one of the largest parts!) into better focus.
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Clothing blocking the sun and keeping you warm since... whenever. They must think us so wasteful spending billions on fuel and electricity.pic.twitter.com/X6xeXyElOj
Kiitos. Käytämme tätä aikajanasi parantamiseen. KumoaKumoa
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It's something I'd like to do, but there are a lot of projects between then and now.
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