The Ottoman and Safavid silk trade.

Abstract

Abstract This chapter narrates the events during the economic and political rule of the Ottoman empire as well as the Persian silk trade. This section has eleven subchapters which are about the Ottomans in the centre, silk production and movement in Safavid Persia, France and the Ottomans, the Levant Company, Dutch in the Levant, growth of French impact in the Levant, raw silk around the horn, the VOC gets into the silk market, Bengali silk trade, luxury silks in Europe, and death of the worms due to a silkworm disease called 'pebrine'.