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Found 3 from your keywords: subject="Silk"
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Chapter The colour of Valencian silk fabrics in the European market (1475-1513)
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Navarro Espinach, GermánAPARICI MARTI, JOAQUIN

Our research compares guild ordinances, judicial proceedings, technical manuals of dyeing and especially fiscal sources in the Valencian archives to check the fashion trends on the colour of silks fabrics during the 15th-16th centuries in relation to what was happening in the European market at that time. The silk declarations in Valencia city from 1475 to 1513 makes it possible to establish a …

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9788855185653
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Beyond the Silk Roads
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Marsden, Magnus

Small-scale traders play a crucial role in forging Asian connectivity, forming networks and informal institutions separate from those driven by nation states, such as China’s Belt and Road Initiative. This ambitious study provides a unique insight into the lives of the mobile traders from Afghanistan who traverse Eurasia. Reflecting on over a decade of intensive ethnographic fieldwork, Ma…

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9781108974387
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Dice and Gods on the Silk Road
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Brandon Dotson, Constance A. Cook, and Zhao Lu

What do dice and gods have in common? What is the relationship between dice divination and dice gambling? This interdisciplinary collaboration situates the tenth-century Chinese Buddhist “Divination of Maheśvara” within a deep Chinese backstory of divination with dice and numbers going back to at least the 4th century BCE. Simultaneously, the authors track this specific method of dice divi…

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978-90-04-46437-7
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Prognostication in History, Volume: 7
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