From Senegal to Augsburg: Gum Arabic and the Central European Textile Industry in the Eighteenth Century.

West Africa's role in the early modern economy is usually reduced to that of a supplier of forced labour for American plantations while other types of trade — especially direct trade between Western Africa and Europe — are often marginalised in scholarship. This article argues that the West African...

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Published in:	Textile History Vol. 50; no. 1; pp. 4 - 23
Main Author:	Wimmler, Jutta
Format:	Article
Published:	Taylor & Francis Ltd May2019
Subjects:	History of the textile industry Gum arabic Textile painting Textile dyeing Textile patterns Cotton trade
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost