Textiles

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Textiles
Link to syllabus
Link to Encyclopedia of the Orient
Link to WDI
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Turkey Cotton Industry, 1840-1985
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Egypt Textile Industry, 20th Century
Sources Owen, Tignor, UN
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Iran Unofficial Estimates of Textile and Carpet
Labor
1910 Urban Iran, carpet making 65,000 1920s
Tabriz, Tehran, Esfahan carpets and textiles
10,000 1940 Urban carpet, 60,000 textiles
25,000-30,000 1940 carpet weaving and inputs,
250,000 1950 carpet weaving 20,000 1988 textile
industry, 161,000
Source Willem Floor, Industrialization in Iran
1900-1941, Issawi, and United Nations
Industrial Statistics
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Silk production in Turkey
Source Jirousek Textile History Vol. 29 2, 1998
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Sorting Silk in Antioch, Syria
Source Quataert (1993) Ottoman manufacturing in
the age of the Industrial Revolution
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(Factory) Silkworkers, 1892
Source Quataert, Ottoman manufacturing in the
age of the
Industrial Revolution
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Women in a silk factory in Turkey, 1910
Graham-Brown Images of Women page 136
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Production of Silk Cocoons in Greater Syria
1861-1910
Source Firro (1990)
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Immigration from Lebanon, and Price of Silk,
1865-1913
Source Khater (1996)
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Hans Holbein, George Giesze. 1532
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Holbein, The Ambassadors 1533
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Jan Van Steen. Love Sick Woman. 1660
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Gilbert Stuart, Lansdowne (George Washington) 1796
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Victorian Interior, 1855
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Carpet-1904?
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Carpet Weaving Kerman
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Children Weavers, Iran. 1880
Source Sevruguin and the Persian Image
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Carpet Weaving, Iran
Source Iran in Days of Old, by R. Shahrestani
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Carpet Weavers, Iran. early 20th century
Source V. Sackville-West, Passenger to Teheran,
p. 114
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Carpet Weaving, Iran
Source Iran in Days of Old, by R. Shahrestani
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Nomad Carpet Weaving, Iran
Source Iran in Days of Old, by R. Shahrestani
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Rachitic Child Weavers, Iran 1920s
Source Helfgott, Ties that Bind p. 261
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Turkey Women Weavers
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Villages of Weavers, Western Turkey
Source Return to Tradition
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Loom Outside in Porch
Preparing the Warp for the Loom
Source Return to Tradition
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Turkey Village Weaver
Source Anderson (1998) Return to Tradition
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Turkey, Village Carpet, 1992
Source Anderson (1998) Return to Tradition
Kilim-prayer rug
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Turkey Old and New Uses for Woven Donkey Bags
Source Anderson (1998) Return to Tradition
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Turkey. Finished Carpets
Source Anderson (1998) Return to Tradition pages
28, 29
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Turkey. Carpets Used in Mosques
Source Anderson (1998) Return to Tradition
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Turkey. A Young Weaver with her Dowry, 1992
Source Anderson (1998) Return to Tradition
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Turkey Machine Made Carpets at the Market, 1995
Source Anderson (1998) Return to Tradition
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Turkey Next Generation of Weavers
Source Anderson (1998) Return to Tradition
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Turkey. Volume of Production, Exports, and
Employment in Carpets
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Turkey Knotted Carpet Exports, Manufacturing
Exports, and Total Exports.
(Data in million U.S. dollars)
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Turkey Comparison of Weaving Earnings, Ouput and
Time. 1983
Source Berik (1987) Women carpet weavers in
rural Turkey
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Turkey Economic Position of Weaving Households,
by Gender of Head. 1983
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Financial Autonomy Index (1-100), related to
other household characteristics
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Looms in Aleppo
Source Quataert 1993, p. 76
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Silk Cocoon Production in Greater Syria
1889-1911
Source Firro (1990)
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Khalil Gibran, 1883-1931
(Lebanese-born) philosophical essayist,
novelist, poet, and artist. His works, written
in both Arabic and English, are full of lyrical
outpourings and express his deeply religious and
mystical nature. The Prophet (1923), a book of
poetic essays, achieved cult status among
American youth for several generations.
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Carpet Exports from Western Anatolia, 1877-1913
Source Quataert (1986)
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Carpet Production and Workers in Usak (western
Turkey) 1873-1910
Source Quataert (1986)