The Silk Industries of Medieval Paris: Artisanal Migration, Technological Innovation, and Gendered Experience

by Sharon Farmer

For more than one hundred years, from the last decade of the thirteenth century to the late fourteenth, Paris was the only western European town north of the Mediterranean basin to produce luxury silk cloth. What was the nature of the Parisian silk industry? How did it get there? And what do the answers to these questions tell us?

According to Sharon Farmer, the key to the manufacture of silk lies not just with the availability and importation...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812248481
• ISBN13: 9780812248487
• Release Date: December 2016
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.0"