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1 HANNA HODACS Asian silk in eighteenth- century Scandinavia: quantities, colour schemes and impact

2 Europe's Asian Centuries Trading Eurasia 1600-1830 Global History and Culture Centre Department of History - University of Warwick http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/ghcc/eac/ Asian Export Ware and Industrial Revolution Asian Goods in the Political Economy of Europe Asian Goods and European Consumer Cultures Asian Goods: Making and Distributing Asian Goods and the Transmission of Knowledge Bringing global perspectives and interdisciplinary methods to bear on histories of industrialization, consumer society and material culture Investigating the long distance trade between Asia and Europe in material goods and culture that transformed the early modern world. Professor Maxine Berg Project Director Dr Hanna Hodacs Research Fellow Dr Chris Nierstrasz Research Fellow Dr Felicia Gottman Research Fellow Dr Helen Clifford Museum Consultant Ms Meike Fellinger PhD Student Ms Jiao Liu Project Administrator

3 Silk and Tea in the North. Scandinavian Trade and the Market for Asian Goods in Eighteenth Century Europe, Palgrave, forthcoming Introduction Chapter 1: The Scandinavian trade with China Chapter 2: Buying Bohea in Canton: selling “Gothenburg Congo” in Scotland Chapter 3: Silk from China: fashion from France Chapter 4: Relocation and substitution: a local and global history of dyeing and drinking Chapter 5: Tea and silk in the North: geographies and chronologies Appendix A: Tea imported by SEIC and DAC 1731-1766 Appendix B: Wholesale traders in tea in Gothenburg (1734, 1748, 1756), and Copenhagen (1756) Appendix C: Colour schemes on Poesis Damask, imported to Europe by SEIC 1734-761 Appendix D: Wholesale trades in silk in Gothenburg (1734, 1748, 1756), and Copenhagen (1756)

4 Sales Catalogue, Swedish East India Company, 1748

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11 From Herrborum Castle, Sweden

12 Objective: Explore ways to use colours tracing changes to the trade of Chines silk in eighteenth century Scandinavia.

13 Sales Catalogue, Swedish East India Company, 1748 Sky blue Citron or Lemon yellow

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15 English, modern AshCherryCrimsonFlesh (Pink)Jonquil Yellow Lemon YellowMazarin BlueMourant Blue German*)AschKirschenCarmoisinCoul de ChairJonquilleCitronMazarin BlauBleumourant SwedishAskfärgadKörsbärCarmoiseCoul. de ChairJonqvilleCitrongohltMazarinblåBlomerant Danish Aske Graa Carmoisin Jonquille Citron Bleumerant EnglishAshCherryCrimsonJunquilleCitronMazarin English, modern PearlPoppy RedPurpleRose (Pink/Red)ScarletSky BlueStrawTurquin Blue German*)PerlePonsoPurpurCoul de RoseScharlakenHimmel BlauPailleTurquin Blau SwedishPerlfärgPonceauPurpurCoul. De RoseSkarl.färgHimmelsblåPailleTurqvinblått Danish Perle Ponceau Roesa Pallie Turkin EnglishPearlPurplePinkScarletSkyblewStrawTurquin *Sources: German from SEIC Catalogue 1733, 36,42, Swedish from SEIC Catalogue 1740s, Danish from DAC Negotiation protocol, English, ordering lists of the EIC

16 Top ten colours of Poisies Damask pieces imported by the Swedish East India Company 1733-1761 %

17 Relative value (Canton prices) of silk and porcelain imported by the Danish East India Company 1734-1759

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20 Different shades of red on Poisies Damask pieces imported by the Swedish East India Company 1733-1761

21 Different shades of blue on Poisies Damask pieces imported by the Swedish East India Company 1733-1761

22 Colours 31 pieces of Damask Poisies in 16 colours (30 lots) 37 pieces/ 6 colours (1 lot) Carmoise4 Jonguil323 Ponceau2 Brun/Brown1 Pärlfärg/Perl coloured1 Himmelsblå/Sky blue4 Askfärg/Ash coloured22 Skarlet/Scarlet colour23 Turquinblått/Blue Turguin1 Blyfärg/Lead coloured12 Grön/Green23 Mazarine blå/Blue2 Hwita/White2 Citronfärg/Lemon Yellow1 Coul. De Rose/Pink14 Swart/Black2 Price (average) per piece Swedish silver dollar 55.89 44.75

23 More is more – colour variation but not colour innovation

24 Silk pieces put up for sale in Gothenburg by the Swedish East India Company 1733 to 1759 (130 000 pieces excluding smaller pieces and ready made clothes) Silk bought for re-export

25 Johan Westring’s The Colour History of Swedish Lichen, or how to use them for colouring and in other useful ways for the household

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28 Price of Bohea tea silver teil per picule % of value of cargo Relative value (Canton prices) of silk and porcelain imported by the Danish East India Company 1734-1759 and average price of Bohea tea

29 Silk pieces put up for sale in Gothenburg by the Swedish East India Company 1733 to 1759

30 Price of Bohea tea silver teil per picule % of value of cargo

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