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Date of this Version

2002

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Article

Citation

Silk Roads, Other Roads: Proceedings of the 8th Biennial Symposium of the Textile Society of America, September 26-28, 2002, Northampton, Massachusetts

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Copyright 2002 by the author.

Abstract

Contents

Preface

Session 1. Archaeology and the Silk Road

Session 2. Textile Artisans, Global Markets, and Sustainable Development in Africa and Asia

Session 3. Silk, the Middle East and Africa

Session 4. Acculturation

Session 5. Silk in Medieval Europe

Session 6. Individual Papers

Session 7. Common Treads: Unwinding the History of Silk Production in Mainland Southeast Asia

Session 8. New Perspectives on the American Silk Industry: Silk Products and Silk Manufacture in America

Session 9. High Roads/Low Roads, North Roads/South Roads: Regional and Cultural ‘Personalities’ in Ventral and Southern Andean Textiles, part 1

Session 10. The American Textile Industry

Session 11. High Roads/Low Roads, North Roads/South Roads: Regional and Cultural ‘Personalities’ in Central and Southern Andean Textiles, part 2

Session 12. The American Textile Industry, cont.

Session 13. Silk Traditions in Japan

Session 14. Dichotomies in Silk: Crisp and Soft, Shrinking and Stretching, Sheer and Opaque, Past and Future

Session 15. Trade in Asia

Session 16. Individual Papers

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