Plan Ahead

Visiting Manet/Degas?

You must join the virtual queue. Read the additional visitor guidelines.

MetPublications

Interwoven Globe: The Worldwide Textile Trade, 1500–1800

Peck, Amelia, with contributions by Amy Bogansky, Joyce Denney, John Guy, Maria João Pacheco Ferrerira, Elena Phipps, Marika Sardar, Cynthia V. A. Schaffner, Kristen Stewart, and Melinda Watt (2013)

This title is out of print.

Publication Details

Description
Table of contents
About the authors
Press reviews
Tags

Related Titles

Related Content

Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History (10)
Exhibition
Exhibition_Interwoven Globe
September 16, 2013–January 5, 2014

Beginning in the sixteenth century, the golden age of European exploration in search of spice routes to the east brought about the flowering of an abundant textile trade. Textiles often acted as direct currency for spices, as well as other luxury goods. Textiles and textile designs made their way throughout the globe, from India and Asia to Europe, between India and Asia and Southeast Asia, from Europe to the east, and eventually west to the American colonies. Trade textiles blended the traditional designs, skills, and tastes of all of the cultures that produced them, resulting in objects that are both beautiful and historically fascinating. The exhibition will include works from across the Museum's collection—augmented by a few international loans—in order to make worldwide visual connections, and will highlight an important design story that has never been told from a truly global perspective.