Science and Civilisation in China, Part 9, Textile Technology: Spinning and ReelingCambridge University Press, 9 de jun. de 1988 - 556 páginas This study, the first of two parts, gives a comprehensive account of Chinese textiles and textile technology and deals with the evolution of bast fibre spinning and silk-reeling in the history of China. These operations are the basic techniques in the production of yarn and thread, pre-requisite to weaving, and any study of Chinese textile technology must start with the raw material obtained from fibre plants such as hemp, ramie, jute, cotton, etc, and silk reeled off from cocoons of the domestic silkworm. The time-span covered runs from the neolithic to the nineteenth century. Archaeological and pictoral evidence, the bulk of it hitherto unpublished in the West, is brought together with Chinese textual sources (which are extensively translated and interpreted) to illustrate Chinese achievements in this field. Professor Kuhn's study reveals the way in which Chinese textile-technological inventiveness has influenced textile production in other regions of the world and in medieval Europe. It explains how textile technology reached its high point between the tenth and thirteenth centuries and attempts to indicate the reasons for its subsequent relative decline. The development of the textile industry in Europe was a key factor in the rise of capitalism. In the case of China after Sung times, textile technology and the organisation of textile labour may help indicate why such a development did not take place in China. |
Conteúdo
d The evolution of the spindlewheel p | 156 |
p | 225 |
e Ropemaking p | 237 |
f The legend of sericulture and the material evidence of silk p | 247 |
g The production of silk p | 285 |
BIBLIOGRAPHIES | 437 |
page 1 | 452 |
499 | |
Table of Chinese Dynasties | 511 |
Termos e frases comuns
19th century Agriculture Anon axle bamboo bast fibre Bombyx mori Chekiang Cheng Chhen Chhi chhi-yung Chhing Chih Chin China Chinese Chou cloth cocoons cotton culture device diameter driving-belt driving-wheel dynasty excavated Fang guiding-eyes Han dynasty handscroll hemp Honan horizontal Hsia Hsü I-Chih Ibid illustrations Kiangsu KKHP Kuang Kuhn Lady Hsi-ling layer Liang mats method Ming mulberry trees multiple spindle NCCS neolithic Nung Sang Nung Shu Nunome Peking PFIZMAIER PFKI Pien plant Pottery whorls production province pulley ramie ramping-board reel reign period roller roller-frame rotation Sericulturalist Sericulture Shang Shanghai Shantung Shih Shuo silk threads silk-reeling frame silkworm silkworm breeding spindle spindle-wheel spinning frame spinning-frame splicing spooling STTH Sung Szechwan techniques textile Thang Thung TKKW treadle treadle-operated Tshan Sang Tshan Shu TSTP twisting Wang Chen warp-threads Warring States period weaving weft wheel yarn Yüan