Medieval Cotton - Trade and Industry

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  • Опубліковано 8 січ 2021
  • This episode we discuss the origins and history of the medieval cotton trade as well as the cotton industry.
    Cotton which is still one of the most utilized textiles today was one of the most traded commodities in medieval Europe. We discuss where it was traded, who grew cotton and some of it's uses.
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    Links and Sources
    Cotton links
    The Production, History, Uses and Relationships of Cotton (Gossypium spp.) in Ethiopia
    G. Edward Nicholson
    www.jstor.org/stable/4252135?...
    Japanese Civilization (Part 19)
    The Spread of Cotton Westward
    By Kawakatsu Heita
    www.jef.or.jp/journal/pdf/spe...
    The Cotton Industry of Northern Italy in the Late Middle Ages: 1150-1450
    Maureen Fennell Mazzaoui
    www.jstor.org/stable/2117188?...
    The North Italian Cotton Industry 1200-1800
    Maureen Fennell Mazzaoui*
    www.lse.ac.uk/Economic-Histor...
    From Upper Italy to Swabia
    A fourteenth-century case of geographical shifts in production and the structural evolution of an economic sector
    translated by Sarah Swift and Ellen Yutzy Glebe
    www.bavarian-studies.org/2020...
    The Italian Cotton Industry in the Later Middle Ages, 1100-1600 - Maureen Fennell Mazzaoui - ISBN 9780511897009
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КОМЕНТАРІ • 45

  • @FayeSterling
    @FayeSterling 3 роки тому +6

    Cotton!! This was great, I can't wait for the rest of the series. Who knows, there may be nightmare projects made with this, or merely less argument about cotton textiles in our wardrobes.

    • @PopulaUrbanum
      @PopulaUrbanum  3 роки тому +3

      I am glad you enjoyed it, I am sure there will be nightmare projects, but there are nightmare projects in commonly accepted textiles. The key is to view the evidence and research in front of us and apply what is reasonable using the techniques, fashions and textiles that were available.

  • @mindfulmarketing9414
    @mindfulmarketing9414 3 роки тому +1

    Shadiversity brought me here, now I'm a sub for life! Please keep your channel alive! It will grow huge!

    • @PopulaUrbanum
      @PopulaUrbanum  3 роки тому

      Glad you are enjoying the videos. We are still around, don't worry.

  • @urchincreature
    @urchincreature 3 роки тому +1

    ...and that's the tea on medieval cotton

  • @savannahbrewer6161
    @savannahbrewer6161 3 роки тому +4

    is there going to be a follow-up video to address why everyone else says there was no cotton in medieval Europe?

    • @PopulaUrbanum
      @PopulaUrbanum  3 роки тому +2

      I had not considered that, to be honest I'm very confused why people say there isn't.

  • @medievalcontent6193
    @medievalcontent6193 2 роки тому

    Great vid!

  • @GoldenMiddleAge
    @GoldenMiddleAge 3 роки тому

    Looking well, happy new year!

    • @PopulaUrbanum
      @PopulaUrbanum  3 роки тому

      Thank you and happy new year to you too

  • @villeuusivuori7150
    @villeuusivuori7150 3 роки тому +1

    Looking forward to hearing more on the how and why the southern germany became the center of cotton industry. One would assume at the first glance that shipping the fibre there would make the fabric much more expensive.

    • @PopulaUrbanum
      @PopulaUrbanum  3 роки тому

      Yes, it is an odd situation, really looking forward to discussing it

  • @roryross3878
    @roryross3878 3 роки тому

    This is good stuff!

  • @magnuscole
    @magnuscole 3 роки тому +2

    Wow, cotton who would have thought?

    • @PopulaUrbanum
      @PopulaUrbanum  3 роки тому

      It is definitely something that we have been wanting to talk about for awhile.

  • @jeffhogan3433
    @jeffhogan3433 3 роки тому

    So what would the cotton weave look like if we are talking about worn garments?

    • @PopulaUrbanum
      @PopulaUrbanum  3 роки тому

      This is a really good question, there are lots of different weaves and types of cotton fabrics being manufactured in the medieval period, twills are common as were brushed flannels. As for what they would look like this is harder to say since we do not have any surviving examples. We can only operate on conjecture, since we know what a medieval twill looked like we can only surmise that same fabric being woven in cotton.

  • @robertlemal1055
    @robertlemal1055 3 роки тому

    good work sir :-)

  • @jackwyatt517
    @jackwyatt517 2 роки тому

    Great video thanks !!!!!
    I'm getting a 15th century outfit pieced together slowly,and I have 2 gugels,1 wool with liripipe and cotton lining,and another without liripipe but it's complete cotton,so I suppose either would be plausible:)

    • @PopulaUrbanum
      @PopulaUrbanum  2 роки тому +1

      Glad you liked it.
      I would say either are plausible yes, there is some interesting German cotton garments that are mentioned only in text that I would like to try out

    • @jackwyatt517
      @jackwyatt517 2 роки тому

      @@PopulaUrbanum thank you! And I'm supposed to have a 15th century look,so no liripipe would be okay?

    • @PopulaUrbanum
      @PopulaUrbanum  2 роки тому +1

      Depending on the context, we do see some depictions of a hood being worn en-chaperon without a liripipe being depicted in France in the latter part of the 14th and early portion of the 15th century, I *think you *may start to see the liripipe disappearing in the latter portion of the 15th century. I would be very unsure of this without needing to do some very serious looking at visual resources though. The hood is an interesting garment during the 15th century it really starts to disappear in favor of other headwear and again it depends on where, when and for what purpose we are talking

  • @Expeditehistory
    @Expeditehistory 3 роки тому

    Forgive the obvious question but what language are you saying hello in at the beginning of your videos?

    • @PopulaUrbanum
      @PopulaUrbanum  3 роки тому +1

      We are speaking Te Reo which is the Maori language.

  • @hugobanneret7702
    @hugobanneret7702 3 роки тому

    Fantastic video packed with great information! Would you mind if i cite this in one of my upcoming videos?

    • @PopulaUrbanum
      @PopulaUrbanum  3 роки тому +1

      Hey yes, please do. the more cotton information the better :)

    • @hugobanneret7702
      @hugobanneret7702 3 роки тому

      @@PopulaUrbanum Thank you very much!

    • @PopulaUrbanum
      @PopulaUrbanum  3 роки тому

      You are welcome, let me know when the next one is up

  • @vanivanov9571
    @vanivanov9571 3 роки тому +3

    When you said contentious topic, I thought you were going to mention the mandatory Covid 19 camps.

    • @PopulaUrbanum
      @PopulaUrbanum  3 роки тому

      Oh goodness no...

    • @vanivanov9571
      @vanivanov9571 3 роки тому +1

      @@PopulaUrbanum "It turns out, it's just a cover for a giant cotton milling operation, designed to make New Zealand the foremost cotton producer! People go in, cotton comes out!"
      I hadn't realized cotton was cheaper than wool in Europe (at least after the crusades). Thanks for sharing that. I guess they never went so far as to make cotton armour, which was popular in America. Makes me wonder why, if so. Maybe linen was even cheaper, for gambesons?

    • @InSanic13
      @InSanic13 3 роки тому

      @@vanivanov9571 I have no sources backing this up, but I've heard that the term "aketon" was used for a gambeson-like armor that used cotton in place of linen.

    • @PopulaUrbanum
      @PopulaUrbanum  3 роки тому +1

      wow just when I thought I had heard every terrible conspiracy theory a new one comes up. No cotton milling here, New Zealand can't even mill it's own wool.
      Yes, cotton armour outside of Jupons and aketons and helmet liner did not take off in Europe, while as you say the Americas had cotton Armour, so too did Islamic Africa and I believe the Mongolians too, but I could be wrong about that.

    • @PopulaUrbanum
      @PopulaUrbanum  3 роки тому

      @InSanic The Jupon of Charles de Blois has a cotton lining, there is some weird etymology of the word Jupon, and Jupe which comes from a cotton garment as well which I can't quite remember

  • @ramboturkey1926
    @ramboturkey1926 3 роки тому

    tree wool i love it. yours so quit though its hard to hear

    • @PopulaUrbanum
      @PopulaUrbanum  3 роки тому

      Tree wool, I thought it was odd.
      I wonder why it is quiet for you, are you on a mobile phone?

  • @nonstopp375
    @nonstopp375 6 місяців тому +1

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