painted cottons (2 Ergebnisse)

No Binding. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. Fer, Nicolas de (1646-1720). Plan de Pondichery a la côte de Coromandel occupé par la Compagnie Royale des Indes Orientales. Paris, chez le Sr de Fer dans l'Isle du Palais a la Sphére Royale avec privilege du Roy, 1705. Engraved map by A[ntoine] Coquart (1668-1709) after the cartographer's design. Oblong folio. Plate impression 25 x 36.5cm; overall size 26.7 x 38.5 cm. Detailed map of the main French trading port in South East India and its surroundings in its early stages. The fortified city built in a grid pattern is shown to the right with the river Pondichery and its harbour outlet to the Indian Ocean to the left. An explanatory text in the right margin contains the geographical location with a key to twenty-two main points of interest marked in capital letters. Three entries relate to the famous textile manufacture in natural dyes - (southwest :) 0. Endroit ou on bat les toiles (place where cloth is beaten and pressed during the dyeing process); (southeast:) V. La Blancherie indicates the location for bleaching, rinsing and drying fabrics in meadows surrounded by hedges; two units marked X in the eastern part of the town refer to Rue de Tisserands (weavers street). The French East India Company was set up in Pondicherry in 1674 under the tutelage of Colbert as a trading centre which became the main French settlement in India. Commercial relations between France and India developed rapidly as the taste for Indian goods increased. Good water quality allowed the establishment of bleaching and dyeing industries which produced the finest dyed blue cloth. The world-famous chintzes, hand-painted or stenciled fabrics exported to Europe, owed their desirability to their fast bright blues and reds, produced by indigo and chay-root , a plant native to coast southwest India.

No Binding. Zustand: Very Good. Louis XV king of France. Declaration du Roi, portant réglement pour les plombs des toiles de coton, les toiles de lin, de chanvre & de coton peintes ou imprimées, venant de l étranger. Donnée à Versailles le 7 Avril 1764. Aix, Chez la Veuve de J.David & Esprit David, 1764. 4to. 5 +[1 blank]p. Wrappers. Royal edict of 7 April 1764 published by the customs office at Aix-en-Provence laying down regulations on marking legally imported linen, hemp and cotton canvas, painted or printed, with lead seals in order to protect home industries; reference is made to the edicts of 1759 and 1726. Merchants must keep the part of the canvas to which the seal is attached as proof of legal import; articles lacking the seal would lead to confiscation and fines.