Seri-Technics: Historical Silk Technologies

• Main Author: Giorgio Riello (auth)
• Other Authors: Dagmar Schäfer (auth), Luca Molà (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Edition Open Access 2020
• Series: Studies 13: Max Planck Research Library for the History and Development of Knowledge
• Subjects: history of technology; silk production; globalization; MPRL; Edition Open Access; human and social sciences; material culture; history of science
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

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,...