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Textilia Linnaeana : global 18th century textile traditions & trade / textile historian Viveka Hansen ; editor Lars Hansen ; translation Eivor Cormack ; preface Gunnar Broberg ; artwork Lena Granell.

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Textilia Linnaeana : global 18th century textile traditions & trade / textile historian Viveka Hansen ; editor Lars Hansen ; translation Eivor Cormack ; preface Gunnar Broberg ; artwork Lena Granell.
Author
Hansen, Viveka
Publication
London : IK Foundation & Company, 2017.

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  • Hansen, Lars
  • Cormack, Eivor
  • Broberg, Gunnar
  • Granell, Lena
Description
517 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (some color); 25 cm.
Summary
The seventeen Linnaeus Apostles were early scientific global travellers; young men who during half a century travelled to more than fifty countries on all seven continents under commission of the famous Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus, Academies of Sciences, East India Companies or private patrons. Along with several expeditions, where some of the Apostles were engaged and participated -- on James Cook's first and second circumnavigations, in the Danish scientific expedition to South Arabia and the Imperial Academy of Sciences' expeditions in Russia. In these travellers' extensive 18th century journals, scientific instructions, correspondence etc., together with Linnaeus' own works; various textile traditions and clothes were taken into account. Like descriptions of wool and woollen cloth, the manufacturing process of indigo, the importance of the commerce via the Silk Road and other caravan routes as well as the East India trade of luxury fabrics, linens, textile dyes and much more via harbours in Cadix, Madeira, St Helena, the Cape, Surat, Java and Canton in the main.
Series Statement
Mundus Linnæi series ; no. V
Uniform Title
Mundus Linnaei series ; no. 5.
Subject
  • Linné, Carl von, 1707-1778
  • 1700-1799
  • Textile fabrics > History > 18th century
  • Textile printing > History > 18th century
  • Dyes and dyeing > History > 18th century
  • Thread > History > 18th century
  • Textile industry > History > 18th century
  • Naturalists > Sweden > Biography
  • Dyes and dyeing
  • Naturalists
  • Textile fabrics
  • Textile industry
  • Textile printing
  • Thread
  • Sweden
Genre/Form
  • Biographies
  • History
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
ISBN
  • 1904145329
  • 9781904145325
OCLC
  • 993061518
  • SCSB-10649143
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Harvard Library