Studies 13

Seri-Technics

Historical Silk Technologies
Historical case studies showing diverse regional processes of silk textile production.

Historical case studies showing diverse regional processes of silk textile production.

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At a time when the social and cultural importance of silk in the pre-modern global world is increasingly evident, this volume returns to the issue of technology and queries the ways in which actors determined the nature of silk by deploying, selecting, or pursuing certain set of technics, practices, or ideals (while dismissing or ignoring others). Drawing on the growing research on silk’s cultural, social, economic, and intellectual implications, these chapters provide a fresh look at how technical processes have been historically shaped to define the identity of silk. Calling the technical system that has generated ideas about silk a form of textile seri-technics, this volume presents historical case studies that, sampled from diverse cultural regions, exemplify major technological processes and practices of silk textile production. The contributions tackle five technical attributes and principles of action that have come to make up historical seri-technics.

Information

ISBN

978-3-945561-45-4

DOI

10.34663/9783945561461-00

Pages

96

Publication Date

Aug. 25, 2020

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Price

13.73 EUR

Suggested Citation

Schäfer, Dagmar, Riello, Giorgio and Molà, Luca (eds.) (2020). Seri-Technics: Historical Silk Technologies. Berlin: Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften.

Editorial Team

Gina Partridge-Grzimek with Melanie Glienke and Wiebke Weitzmann