S4E10: A Flash Flood of Fast Fashion

It’s an intercontinental textile trade war, as Spain throws open its colony’s ports to the world, and imported cotton from Britain muscles its way into Philippine markets.

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References:

Coo, Stephanie (2019). Clothing the Colony: Nineteenth Century Philippine Sartorial Culture, 1820-1896. Ateneo de Manila University Press.

Ladrido, R.C. (27 May 2022) “Piña: The queen of Philippine handwoven textiles.” Vera Files. https://verafiles.org/articles/pina-the-queen-of-philippine-handwoven-textiles

Lush, Emily. “Piña (Pineapple) Cloth, Philippines.” The Textile Atlas. https://www.thetextileatlas.com/craft-stories/pina-cloth-philippines

Henry F. Funtecha (December 1981). “Iloilo’s Weaving Industry During the 19th Century.” Philippine Quarterly of Culture and Society 9(4), 301-308. https://www.jstor.org/stable/29791740

Griffin, Emma (2014, 15 May). “Manchester in the 19th century.” British Library. https://www.bl.uk/romantics-and-victorians/articles/manchester-in-the-19th-century

“Manchester, Cotton, and Slavery.” (19 January 2023). The Science and Industry Museum. https://www.scienceandindustrymuseum.org.uk/objects-and-stories/manchester-cotton-and-slavery

Legarda, Benito (1999). After the Galleons: Foreign Trade, Economic Change, and Entrepreneurship in the Nineteenth Century Philippines. Ateneo de Manila University Press.

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