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This first integrated study of the role of textiles in the development of the Persian nation (now Iran) reveals their unique importance to international trade a

This first integrated study of the role of textiles in the development of the Persian nation (now Iran) reveals their unique importance to international trade a

Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Sept. 16, 2013-Jan. 5, 2014.

A boom in the production and export of cotton made Iran the richest region of the Islamic caliphate in the ninth and tenth centuries. Yet in the eleventh centur

The birth of a mass consumer society in western Europe has been the subject of much scholarly debate in recent years. In order to come to a further understandin